The Metadata Manager Agent is a program that Metadata Manager uses to access metadata sources and extract source metadata. By default, the Metadata Manager Agent runs on the nodes where the Metadata Manager Service runs.
To extract metadata from Microsoft Analysis and Reporting Services, you must install the Metadata Manager Agent separately on a Windows machine. The Metadata Manager Agent and Reporting Services must be on the same machine. If Reporting Services is not on the same machine as the Metadata Manager Service, install the Metadata Manager Agent on the same machine as Reporting Services.