topic Re: Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ? in Open Q&A

Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ?

rohit_sharma — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:23:28 GMT

We have an environment where there are many applications monitored with different maintenance windows. If anybody is having the same situation, please suggest best practice for OneAgent updates for the different applications as the updates come very frequently.

Re: Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ?

skrystosik — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:27:28 GMT

Hello, for such cases best would be manual update:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/oneagent-update-linux#manual-updates-on-individual-hosts

Sebastian

Re: Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ?

rohit_sharma — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 06:40:04 GMT

Hi @sebastian k., thanks for the response. Any suggestion on what could be the ideal time gap between two consecutive updates as a best practice.

Re: Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ?

skrystosik — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 06:48:25 GMT

I’m not sure if there are any restrictions about this. This is just binary replacement. After next application restart new binary is used to instrument application. The same it was in Appmon. Agent has ability to update from 6.5 right to 7.2 without any problems.

Sebastian

Re: Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ?

rohit_sharma — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 06:53:44 GMT

Yeah, thanks for the info, very helpful 🙂

Re: Could anybody suggest best practices for OneAgent updates ?

ChadTurner — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:23:33 GMT

You also have the ability to update hosts via hostgroups. So if You have a set of IBM Notes Servers, you can initiate updates for them while keeping the other hosts as they are without having to start and update one by one on each IBM Notes host.