topic Automation of enabling/disabling monitoring mode in Open Q&A

Automation of enabling/disabling monitoring mode

dmitry-netrebin — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:22:52 GMT

Hi to everybody.

I want to automate process of enabling and disabling monitoring of OneAgents.
In my case i have more hosts and host units than it licensed. i have 4 servers with installed agents there and i have 2 server in prod mode and 2 in stand by. So when i switching one server to prod and in same time to stand-by-mode another one i want to turn off Dynatrace monitoring on first one and turn on on second one.

Yes, i can by the hands in Dynatrace to do it but any chance to automate this process?

any idea how can i do it?

Re: Automation of enabling/disabling montoring mode

skrystosik — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:49:35 GMT

First of all, simple switching between those hosts will not work. You will also require restart of application process after enabling monitoring on those 2 hosts.

Unfortunately there is no option or API in DT to switch monitoring mode on hosts so far. But what can I suggest is set all hosts as enabled and cut traffic between dynatrace server and those hosts. After starting fallback you can automate network rule to open traffic to fallbacks and close to basic ones.

Regards,

Sebastian

Re: Automation of enabling/disabling montoring mode

dmitry-netrebin — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:21:29 GMT

Hello, Sebastian!

Yes, this is good idea to cover my needs. Thank you for answer

Regards,

Dmitry

Re: Automation of enabling/disabling montoring mode

ben_wrightson — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:06:45 GMT

It will soon be possible to enable/disable monitoring on a host via the API: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/manage-thousands-of-hosts-with-the-new-oneagent-on-a-host-rest-api-preview/