any way to manually/force an agent update for a dynaTrace patch in 5.5?

The agents will automatically get updated when they start. So - rebouncing your application should do the trick.

Hi Andreas,

We did bounce our apps, and they did then connect back to the collector however still show 5301.  However I can see in their agent log the following:

2013-12-15 20:40:08 [40eeb940] info [native] Server requests us to use Agent 5.5.0.5562 with a hash of a0007c29349ce008e9c9e3bce4279356
2013-12-15 20:40:08 [40eeb940] info [native] Agent already available locally

But then after that in the next log:

2013-12-15 20:40:10 [40eeb940] info [java ] Java Agent Version .......... 5.5.0.5301, Agent15

In your server settings dialog you see an overview of all connected collectors. can you check which version of the collector you are running right now? Maybe you need to bounce your collectors as well so that they get properly upgraded

It shows 5562 (the updated version).  It was bounced last night (command line) and actually did it again this morning via the console.

(the reason this is even a significant issue is that this patch has a bug fix in it we need on some of our Prod webservers)

If the server and collector are both updated and run with the latest version - and the agent doesnt correctly update to the fixpack version even after a restart I suggest opening a support ticket. A support engineer can then have a closer look at your problem.

Ok thanks!!

Just an update:  We ended up completely reinstalling the collector in question and appears to have done the trick.  We will be restarting the rest of our applications tonight after hours to see if they all fall in line ( I restarted one small one as a test and it worked).  There must have just been something not quite right after the filesystem filled up and it crashed.

Sure, well here's the obvious ones:

2013-12-14 09:21:04 WARNING [SessionHandshakeRequest] session initializer error: No space left on device: com.dynatrace.diagnostics.communication.tcp.session.SessionHandshakeRequest executeR
equestResponse:87
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:282)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.sdk.io.DataInputStreamDataInput.readStream(DataInputStreamDataInput.java:198)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics2013-12-14 09:21:04 WARNING [SessionHandshakeRequest] session initializer error: No space left on device: com.dynatrace.diagnostics.communication.tcp.sess
ion.SessionHandshakeRequest executeRequestResponse:87
java.io.IOException: No space left on device

But then subsequent restarts gave these here & there:

2013-12-14 10:12:54 SEVERE [ThrowableHandler] Uncaught exception in thread "Communication-Thread-0@main": illegal byte array size 16777216 (max. byte array size is 10485760): com.dynatrace.d
iagnostics.util.modern.ThrowableHandler uncaughtException:50
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: illegal byte array size 16777216 (max. byte array size is 10485760)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.sdk.io.DataInputStreamDataInput.readByteArray(DataInputStreamDataInput.java:329)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.communication.tcp.connection.DefaultSocketHeaderReaderWriter30.readHeader(DefaultSocketHeaderReaderWriter30.java:51)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.communication.tcp.connection.DefaultSocketHeaderReaderWriter30.readHeader(DefaultSocketHeaderReaderWriter30.java:24)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.communication.tcp.socket.DefaultSocketHandlerRunnable.handleRequest(DefaultSocketHandlerRunnable.java:65)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.communication.tcp.socket.DefaultSocketHandlerRunnable.execute(DefaultSocketHandlerRunnable.java:55)
at com.dynatrace.diagnostics.util.threads.StatusRunnable.run(StatusRunnable.java:46)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)