topic Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring in Open Q&A

Is there a way to install OneAgent without starting monitoring

g_ciret — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:52:39 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way to install OneAgent (via a command line) and not start the monitoring automatically?

The idea is to deploy the OneAgent on multiple servers and start the monitoring through the Dynatrace UI manually afterwards.

Thanks.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

Joe_Hoffman — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:54:27 GMT

Gilles, Can you explain the use case on why you don't want monitoring to start automatically? That might help best explain how to accomplish your goals.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

hayden_miedema — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:12:07 GMT

This is not currently available. What is the value/benefit of doing it this way rather than have monitoring enabled right away?

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

wallace_abbott — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:19:48 GMT

There is not an option for this default behavior. After OneAgent deployment you can either locally shutdown the OneAgent process, or, you can go into the Dynatrace Platform GUI and turn it off via radio-button.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

g_ciret — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:49:19 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your answers.

The idea is to deploy the agent on all of our customer production servers at once but activate the monitoring manually and progressively in order to check that everything is OK by group of servers/applications. The goal is to avoid a big impact on production environments if there was an issue.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

andrew_patterso — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:58:26 GMT

This is a request that I've had recently too, where we're wanting to install all of our agents in a "disabled" mode, then enable them a few at a time as we activate and test each application.

This would allow us to do an environment-wide roll-out without any risk of impacting applications (and/or allowing us to build it into the SOE), to automate activation (which is simpler to do as a change than installation) and automated environment promotion.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

mike_j_corneliu — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:54:05 GMT

We could make use of this functionality as well. We'd potentially like to include the OneAgent software into our Windows builds, but we'd only need to collect data from a relatively small percentage of devices throughout the enterprise. This would give us the ability to enable the OneAgent software quickly if the need arises without having to install the software since it would already be installed while keeping host unit licenses utilized at a minimum.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

jonno56 — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:40:00 GMT

Hello - if you are using a deployment/automation tool to install the agent, you could run a closing command at the end to stop (or even disable) the windows service, or from chkconfig?

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

mike_j_corneliu — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 12:25:05 GMT

Hi Ben. Yes, I have considered that option but the problem there is that it could cause a spike in our license count immediately after installation. There is also the possibility that the command that is executed after the install fails to stop and disable the service.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

Tomasz_Gajger — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:54:45 GMT

Hi Mike,

I would suggest creating a product idea and describing your use case there.
You can do it on this sub-forum: https://community.dynatrace.com/spaces/483/view.html

Regards,
Tomasz

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

rmeli — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:26:37 GMT

We also want to be able to do this. As someone else said, we have a build process that includes OneAgent but we don't want to enable it as we don't want to consume host units. This will help increase the use of the product throughout the enterprise. We can then decide when or if we want to enable it for either infrastructure or full stack monitoring.

Re: Is there a way to install oneagent without starting monitoring

skrystosik — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:41:09 GMT

There is option right now. After installation of OneAgent you can use this endpoint:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/extend-dynatrace/dynatrace-api/configuration-api/oneagent-on-host/oneagent-monitoring/put-monitoring-configuration/

In general agent after connection will start consume licenses after 5 minutes (as I remember). In such case you have some time between installation and monitoring disabling.

Sebastian