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SDK Init failed, result code is: 8

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Splunk Employee

When trying to instrument java Web Server Agent on one of of our web servers, we are getting the message in error log

SDK Init failed, result code is: 8

Can someone help on how to resolve this issue?

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CommunityUser
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Splunk Employee

Hi,

I found a similar community conversation about Apache here: https://community.appdynamics.com/t5/Archive/Apache-Agent-initialize-appdynamics-SDK-Init-failed-res...

Check out the reply from peter.payne that starts with this: "So what I keep forgetting (because this is the first application I've ever encountered this behaviour) is that all AppDynamics agents (Java, Machine, and Apache) assume that the configuration files are located in a directory relative to the location of the agent (or, in this case, SDK) binary (be it a .jar or .so)."

He then goes on to explain his solution. Please let me know if this helps.

Cody

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