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Dynatrace OneAgent Automatic update failures

awahab
Helper

If Dynatrace Oneagent Automatic update fails in Windows, it will keep retrying the download filling up the drive.

 

The root cause for the failure may be several , but because of the infinite downloads, the drive get filled up and causing outage.

 

Did anyone face this issue? Found any solution or workaround. 

 

P.S : Support was not able to resolve the issue.

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Babar_Qayyum
DynaMight Guru
DynaMight Guru

Hello @awahab 

Really interesting. I would also like to hear more about this.

Regards,

Babar

Sample screenshot below. What you see is the E:\AI_RecycleBin(ignore the naming used 😀) filled with the Dynatrace binaries since the auto-update is failing.

 

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Kenny_Gillette
DynaMight Leader
DynaMight Leader

IMO - we just experienced this and crazy that it was causing space issues.  it was using 64GB of space.  

Dynatrace, might want to review this.

Dynatrace Certified Professional

DarshanDoshi
Contributor

We also see one of the application team come up with the same concern. I am also eager to know the solution.

SteveT
Observer

We continue to see this is issue when we attempt to update the oneagent. It may be one or two hosts, but sometimes it can be multiple.

Our analysis shows that the oneagent update will fail due to the previous msi file missing and so the uninstall cannot proceed. This is still a mystery to why the msi file is missing and not sure if instructions are sent from the oneagent update to clean up the old msi even though the update fails. 

Once the update fails, the AI_RecylcleBin will eventually fill up causing the drive to run out of space. It requires manual intervention to:

  • Delete the AI_RecycleBin to reclaim the space
  • Download the previous oneagent version to the host. Sometimes this requires reaching out to support to make the version available to us for download
  • Extract the msi and place it in the %WINDIR%\Installer directory with the name referenced in the uninstall error
  • Run the uninstall 
  • Reinstall the oneagent to the newer version

It is understandable that the update may fail sometimes but having the AI_RecycleBin fill up and create an outage is unacceptable.  

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