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Question by Anoh B. · Apr 05, 2015 at 02:26 PM ·

Add one additional collector

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Hello,

 

What is an easy way to add one more collector?  Please find attached my current collector.config file.

 

Regards,

Anoh

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Answer by Graeme W. · May 04, 2015 at 08:25 PM

Anoh,

Run the Agent Configuration for .NET tool on the systems running the agents you want to move and open up (i.e., edit) the agent rules for the agents you want to move.

Change the port number to the one the new collector is running on.

Note that this will not change the web server agent.  To move an IIS agent, you'll need to edit the port number in dtwsagent.ini (which can be found in agent/conf).

You'll then need to do an IISRESET for the setting to take effect.

Also, now that you have two collectors, you may want to consider putting them in a collector group so agents can failover from one to the other:    Collectors

-- Graeme

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Thank you Graeme!

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Answer by Graeme W. · Apr 06, 2015 at 06:41 AM

If you're running a collector on a Windows system, you can start a second collector on the same system with:

dtcollector -service install -instance MyCollector -listen :9997 -server mydynatraceserver
sc start "dynaTrace Collector 6.1.0 (MyCollector)"

This (and what to do for Linux) is documented at:  Collector Configuration.

If your load has increased significantly since your initial installation, it's probably worthwhile going through the: Deployment Guide  to check to see if other components of your Dynatrace installation need upgrading – and to verify that you really need that second Collector.

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Hi Graeme,

Now that I have the additional collector, how do I move some of the .NET agents to the new collector?

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Anoh

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Answer by Mikael B. · Apr 05, 2015 at 04:03 PM

Hello Anoh,

More specifically, what are you trying to achieve? Adding a collector is easy, just install the collector software on the machine where you want it to run and then reconfigure your agents to talk to that collector instead of the original one.

If you are running a Java based web application, you need to change the arguments given to the JVM at startup where the dynaTrace collector server name is part of the connection string. The method is similar for .NET (CLR) based applications.

Cheers

Micke

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Good morning Mikael,

Thank you for responding to my question.  I already have a .NET collector.  I want to add one more collector because we have increased the number of transactions.  I was wondering if it could be added via the dT client or in the collector.config file.

Regards,

Anoh

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Hi Anoh,

Sorry I completely misunderstood your question. For some reason I interpreted your query as you wanted to replace an existing collector with a collector on another machine. I fully agree with Graeme Williams below on how to add a collector on a system where the collector software is installed already.

My apologies.

Cheers

Micke

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That's ok Micke!

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