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Question by Pat F. · Mar 17, 2015 at 12:18 AM ·

Change Management Software (Mercurial SCM)

Customer wants to use their change management software (Mercurial SCM) to manage/track their dynaTrace configuration changes.

A few of questions to help then get started:

1. Are all of the dynaTrace configuration files in plain text format (i.e. XML, ini, .sh, etc.).

2. Can you provide a list of the files that contain the dynaTrace Server configuration?

3. Are any other customers currently doing this type of configuration management?

 

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Answer by Andreas G. · Mar 17, 2015 at 02:23 AM

Hi Patrick

Let me try to answer these questions:

#1: Yes - all config file are plain text and can typically be found in our /conf or installation folders. This makes it a good candidate to manage these files in a change management system

#2: Every component (server, collectcor, client, agent) has its own set of configuration options/files. The best way to learn which configuration files are important is to use our Migration Tool which is normally used for migrating a dynatrace installation. This tool is extracting all relevant configuration files from one installation and zips it up to be deployed to the "migrated" version of dynatrace. Check out Upgrade and Migration Guide where the migration tool is also explained

#3: Yes. Not even customers but also we internally do the same thing as we use dynatrace on our own applications (community, website, support system ,...). We check in these files into Subversion on a scheduled basis. I hope some more users comment on this post so that you see that this is a very common practice

Hope this helps

Andi

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