topic Does Machine agent ( without Server Visibility ) consume licenses? in Splunk AppDynamics

Does Machine agent ( without Server Visibility ) consume licenses?

Glen_Green — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:27:51 GMT

Hi All,

I have a number of APM Any Language licenses.

If I allocate 2 Any Language license to one team, will they be able to monitor 2 JVMs and also monitor their 2 servers - using the Machine non-server-visibility agent, or will I have to allocate them 4 licenses ( 2 for their JVMs plus 2 for their Machines )?

Remember - this is for non-server-visibility Machine agents.

Thank you,

Re: Does Machine agent ( without Server Visibility ) consume licenses?

Daniel_Ross — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:23:37 GMT

Hi Glen,

how are you doing? 🙂

Assuming that you mean by "allocate license to a team" that you create a dedicated license rules for them.

If you only assign 2 "Any APM" units to the team they are not able to monitor the hosts with the "Machine non-server-visibility agent". You need also to assign the 2 "Machine agent" units to make it usable.

Does that answer your question?

Best,

Daniel

Re: Does Machine agent ( without Server Visibility ) consume licenses?

Glen_Green — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:50:26 GMT

Hi Daniel,

I'm good, thanks. And it's good to hear from you.

Thanks for your reply, but the issue runs a little deeper...

I have some server visibility machine agent licenses in the same license file as standard machine agent licenses.

When I try to set-up a rule, I am not presented with a choice of "Machine Agent" type. Mt feeling is that when I create a new rule and select "JAVA" and "Machine Agent", it will always allocate a server-visibility license to this rule.

I am looking to see if there is a way to choose what type of Machine Agent to allocate to each rule.

Any thoughts?

Re: Does Machine agent ( without Server Visibility ) consume licenses?

Daniel_Ross — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:41:01 GMT

Hi Glen,

good to hear that! 🙂

Can you please provide a screenshot and your current version?

Best,
Daniel

Re: Does Machine agent ( without Server Visibility ) consume licenses?

Glen_Green — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:09:01 GMT

Hi Daniel,

it is version 4.3.8.5

Screen shots attached show that I can only select from the 500 Machine agents even though I have 150 Server-Visability and 500 standard ( these are temp licenses BTW ).

I have a feeling that if I assign 1 of the 500, AppDynamics will allocate server-visability until the 150 server-visibilty licenses are exhausted. I want to be able to select either Standard or Server-Visible depending on the rule I am creating.