Could we use the Windows 7 OneAgent as a desktop agent?

[anthony_percy2]

A customer is looking for limited desktop agents and is looking at Splunk Uber or Riverbed Aternity desktops agents for Windows 7 desktops. Could we use the Windows 7 Dynatrace OneAgent in this case? Would it be an acceptable use case?

Regards

Anthony

[Julius_Loman]

What metrics or application types does your customer want to monitor? However I think it won't fit. Unless customer is running thick client applications in .NET/Java which can be instrumented. For retrieving just basic OS metric it's gonna be costly.

[pahofmann]

Depends on the use case. You can e.g. run the OneAgent in Cloud Infrastructure mode to get information about Resource Utilization and running processes.

For more advanced insights, a client analytics tool (e.g. nexthink) would be better suited.

[anthony_percy2]

If the OneAgent for Windows 7 is not for advanced insights, why does it exist at all??? e.g what is its primary use case?

[Julius_Loman · Accepted solution]

It's just Oneagent for Windows, there is not a specific Oneagent for Windows 7. If you run it in infrastructure mode, it's limited for retrieving operating system metrics, plugins (out-of-box plugins and custom plugins developed using SDK). and basic process metrics. You don't get code level details, purepaths, services, etc...

In licensing terms it's counted with 0.3 ratio of a full stack agent. It's handy if you need to monitor just basic server functionality (OS) and monitoring running processes or some custom metrics. A good example is to have it on your database servers.