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Question by Gert B. · Feb 25, 2014 at 12:43 PM ·

Host Groups

Hi Guy's

I need some advise or feedback with regards to the following, 

I have a configured single system profile in Dynatrace 5.6 call Host Monitoring with a single Agent Group called "Host Monitoring" with a few mapping IE:

OS

EXCHANGE

ORACLEOS

 

I need a way to add hosts "automated" to predefined "Groups" IE Purpose, Owner, etc upon the agent start up?

 

At this stage we have 1000+ Server added (smile)  and would like this to a automated task or csv import of some sort.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

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Answer by Gert B. · Mar 14, 2014 at 10:24 AM

Case opened, thanks 

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Answer by Gert B. · Mar 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM

When I try to configure the following and start the agent, the "name grouping does not work

 

# Host Agent name
Name owner_purpose_etc
# Collector to connect to
Server collector_name
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avatar image Guenter H. · Mar 13, 2014 at 10:45 AM 0
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Could you please open a support case?!
G.

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Answer by Gert B. · Mar 03, 2014 at 10:21 AM

I have now tested this,  It is not working 

 

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avatar image Guenter H. · Mar 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM 0
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Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I stopped looking after some days. Now I hope you see this!

Could you be more specific what doesn´t work?
Thanks
G.

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Answer by Andreas G. · Feb 26, 2014 at 08:35 AM

Hi

Host Groups that are defined in the Server Settings -> Infrastructure Dialog are "independant" and actually used for something completely different than the Host Monitoring Agents that will map to a System Profile.

Host Groups will automatically detect the hosts based on the agents that connectd. The Use Case for Host Groups is for configuring Monitor Plugins, e.g: Monitor all Windows Machines

Host Monitoring Agents on the other hand are Agents that map to a System Profile. For every agent you will automatically get our Host Monitoring Data that shows up in our Infrastructure View.

Question now is: what is it that you want to achieve? Why do you need both Host Agents and Host Groups?

Andi

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avatar image Gert B. · Feb 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM 0
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Hi,

Thank you for the reply, with our new server commissioning process if a server is instrumented with Dynatrace via the OS agent, we need to define owner, purpose etc. This is required so when we do reporting or even capacity planning we need to report based on system owner or top CPU consumer servers which belongs  to owner  “Mike” or even any filtering based on these groups.

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Gert

avatar image Guenter H. Gert B. · Feb 27, 2014 at 07:55 AM 0
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Good morning Gert,
what first came to my mind when I saw this:
When you do an Unattended (Silent) Installation of the Host Agent you could rewrite <DT_HOME>/agent/conf/dthostagent.ini

# Host Agent name
Name owner_purpose_etc
# Collector to connect to
Server collector_name

Hope someone will correct me if I´m wrong!
G.

avatar image Gert B. Guenter H. · Mar 03, 2014 at 08:03 AM 0
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Hi Thanks for the reply,

I guess I will have to test this and get back to you.

Thanks

Gert..

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