Standalone Machine Agent

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.

Standalone machine agent.

You use the machine agent to collect basic hardware metrics. The machine agent is also the delivery vehicle for appdynamics server visibility which provides an expanded set of hardware metrics and. Installation for new standalone machine agent. Plan the machine agent configuration.

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. Converter standalone 4 0 1 agent is deployed on the source machine during conversion. To upgrade version 4 3 and earlier see upgrade the machine agent. The following example shows how to build and run the standalone machine agent in a container with docker visibility enabled.

The following steps are for new installations. This feature tour of appdynamics pro 4 2 provides an overview of the metrics the standalone machine agent collects. Standalone machine agent for docker visibility. The linux monitoring extension gathers metrics for a linux machine and sends them to the appdynamics metric browser.

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 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. 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. 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.

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. This extension works only with the standalone machine agent.