What is the Host Agent for Linux/UNIX?

Today I noticed at the very end of the downloads for ViPR SRM 3.7 sp2, something called the Host Agent for Linux/UNIX.  I don't have a Liniux/UNIX system at hand where I would feel confident installing it, but it appears to to install cron jobs to collect statistics and ship them to a collector.  Does anyone know anything about this?  Is there some documentation that I've missed?  Thanks.