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Question by Christopher A. · Nov 27, 2013 at 09:35 PM ·

How to identify stand-alone agents?

Hello all,

The customer I am currently visiting has hundreds of agents connected to one server and, because of performance problems, we decided to move the stand-alone agents to another server.
Our problem is how to qualify agents as being stand-alone: indeed, we want to be able to keep the possibility to see end-to-end purepaths as much as possible and, as some agents might be called very unfrequently by other agents, they would appear stand-alone most of the time while they're not.
Additionally, because of the high number of transactions, it is impossible to display the transaction flow for the past 24h.
Would you have an idea on how to approach this?
Thanks in advance!

Chris

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Answer by Christopher A. · Nov 28, 2013 at 10:24 AM

Andi,

What you say would indeed cover 90% of the transactions based on the total amount of the transactions but probably something like 60% of the different types of transactions.

Ideally, I would like to have the possibility to create a business transaction that gives me the name of the agents where I have purepaths that are run only on one agent and compare it with the list of agents impacted by purepaths running on 2 or more agents. Is there such a thing?

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Chris

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Hi. I havent tried this - but - there is an out-of-the-box Measure called "Agent" that you can use for your BT. Again - I havent tried it - but - it is worth giving it a shot

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Answer by Andreas G. · Nov 28, 2013 at 01:51 AM

Hi Christophers

If you have so many transactions than I dont think you need to look at 24h for the Transaction Flow as a much shorter timeframe will be "as representive" as the whole 24 hours. In such an environment I suggest you create your important Business Transactions and put them on the Application Overivew. It wiill automatically baseline response time, failure rate and throughput. If there is any degradation in performance you will see it for a single BT or a single Splitting on a BT. From there it is then much easier to look at the transaction flow.

As for your "standalone" agents.I guess you need to figure out what Standalone means. Maybe you say you keep those agents that contribute to 90% of the PurePaths to your first server and the rest to the other server. You can use the Agent Overview Dashlet to see how many purepaths come in on each agent and sort by the this column.

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