Standalone Machine Agent

Installation for new standalone machine agent.

Standalone machine agent.

This extension works only with the standalone machine agent. The following example shows how to build and run the standalone machine agent in a container with docker visibility enabled. Converter standalone 4 0 1 agent is deployed on the source machine during conversion. The easiest way to get node level hardware metrics is by deploying the server visibility agent machine agent with sim license on each of the nodes in your cluster.

This is provided as a guide only and you may freely modify it to suit your needs. The following steps are for new installations. The linux monitoring extension gathers metrics for a linux machine and sends them to the appdynamics metric browser. To upgrade version 4 3 and earlier see upgrade the machine agent.

This feature tour of appdynamics pro 4 2 provides an overview of the metrics the standalone machine agent collects. If you install converter standalone in local mode you can create and manage conversion tasks only from the machine on which you installed the application. This is done by deploying our standalone machine agent as a daemonset this ensures that every node in the cluster that exists today or in the future will run a copy of this machine agent. If converter standalone 4 0 1 agent is not uninstalled after the conversion older converter versions cannot deploy their agents on top of the newer converter standalone agent version.

The local setup installs the converter standalone server converter standalone agent and converter standalone client for local use. This feature tour of appdynamics pro 3 9 provides an overview of how you can use the standalone machine agent to collect metrics from the operating system report. Plan the machine agent configuration. You use the machine agent to collect basic hardware metrics.

2 provide only hostname in recent machine agent version if usins sim enabled set to true default setting if using older machine agent version sim setting does not exist and if you want to associate to the particular app server node make sure default or value for dappdynamics agent uniquehostid arg value for both app server and machine. The machine agent is a java program that has an extensible architecture enabling you to supplement the basic metrics reported in the appdynamics controller ui with your own custom metrics.