Handling limited agent licenses
We have a limited number of Java licenses and I have to shuffle the restart of jvms in order for licenses on key jvms to be enabled (depending on my tests).
Is there a way to turn off agent collection from the console / server collection side, to facilitate this better?
Thanks for the help
I too have this need but I am on .net.
The way that I have done this is stop one of the prod boxes from monitoring (uncheck the check box in the agent configuration tool on the prod server). My test box, the one I wish to monitor temporarily then grabs the free license. It requires an app pool recycle which is not good.
It would be easier if this could be done in dynatrace client rather than having to go out to the boxes.
You could use multiple collectors (even on the same box) that could be disabled to free up licenses. You can disable them from the dT client but unfortunately you can't turn them back on without getting on the box.
The way I have done this is to setup firewall rules to only allow the applications you want to monitor at the time to connect to the dynatrace server.
This is easily accomplished with windows firewall service if you are running your collector on Windows.
This is a feature enhancement I had made in the past for test center addition since it is cost prohibitive for most enterprises to purchase licenses to cover everything in QA.
