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I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

zelko_zahtila — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:04 GMT

I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

skrystosik — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 10:18:50 GMT

you can change process group naming rules which will affect processes as well.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/process-groups/configuration/customize-the-name-of-process-groups/

Sebastian

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

zelko_zahtila — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:35:00 GMT

@sebastian Thanx for your response. I have tried to rename the process group, but I cannot figure out how to do it in the way to have a different name for processes in the process group. i.e. as described in the attached document, how to rename precesses in the process group: “WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster” from using duplicate names for the diferent processes:

3 processes named: “WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode01)”

3 processes named: “WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode02)”

To different names for each process:

“WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode01:MXUI1)”

“WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode01:MXUI2)”

“WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode01:MXUI3)”

“WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode02:MXUI4)”

“WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode02:MXUI5)”

“WebSphere AS ctgCell01 UICluster (YVWMXNode02:MXUI6)”

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

Julius_Loman — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:58:04 GMT

Probably the best way here would be to use the DT_CLUSTER_ID and DT_NODE_ID variables for each WAS instance.

See my answer in this thread.

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

zelko_zahtila — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:58:36 GMT

Thanx Julius. This looks promising. I'll try and see how I go. The trouble is this is in prod env and I don't know when the servers will be restarted, so very difficult to test if this will work.

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

Julius_Loman — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:54:00 GMT

It has to be restarted anyway.
Actually, I'd recommend setting the variables this way, so for the first node:

DT_CLUSTER_ID=ctgCell01_UICluster
DT_NODE_ID=YVWMXNode01:MXUI1

And set the DT_NODE_ID accordingly for other nodes.

This will result in all WAS processes being the same group and with the node identifier.

Since this is a load balancing cluster (I believe this is IBM SCCD or Maximo Asset Management given those cluster names), it should not a big deal if you restart it one by one.

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

zelko_zahtila — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:02:52 GMT

Good guess and thanx again. I agree with you on the restart, but I don't have admin rights to WAS console. I cannot be bothered raising a CR for restart, so I have to wait until it gets restarted for some other reason. I am quite sure that your suggestion will achieve what I want to do, so thanx once more.

Re: I cannot find how to rename a process. Is it possible and how?

mohanasivaprasa — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:27:35 GMT

Using DT_CLUSTER_ID & NODE_ID variables, It is working correctly. we have tested and able to see the JVM's names.