How to display alias name, instead of hostname in Workstation?

[VLu]

Hi,

Happy Holidays to all. I'm trying to look for a way to display server alias name, instead of hostname in Workstation. Is this possible? Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[Haruhiko Davis]

Please refer to my previous post about this.

10685503

Your other options are to use a custom process name or agent name.

-Hiko

[VLu]

Thanks for reply. Please forgive my ignorance as I'm still pretty new to Wily.

1. What is PS engagement?
2. Can you explain more on custom process or agent name?

-...RegionA1003 <-- hostname
:
-...JBOSS
:
+...billingapp01-vm1
+...billingapp01-vm2
+...billingapp01-vm3

billingapp01 is the alias.

[Haruhiko Davis]

The custom process name in your example would be JBOSS.

Change the following value in your agent profile:

introscope.agent.customProcessName=JBOSS

Replace JBOSS with your new value.


A Professional Services Engagement is what your company needs to do in order to engage CA to provide a resource to help fulfill a need. Your company and CA will work out a statement of work that outlines the rules of engagement and the cost. Your company should have already purchased PS hours which can be used for this purpose. The statement of work can be as generic or specific as you like. Examples are to help with major deployment or when you require and SME for a critical situation (CritSit). You can also request a resource who can development custom code for your environment.

-Hiko

[VLu]

Per CA Support Team, "Cannot be done". Not good for companies that lease their servers. So when you have lease replacement of old servers, you will have to remember all new hostnames.

[Legacy User]

The host name can be overridden for an agent by adding the following property and assigning the desired value to the IntroscopeAgent.profile:
[font=Courier New]introscope.agent.hostName=<desired host name>[font]

[VLu]

Thank you, jakbulter! I been waiting and waiting on CA Supports to get back to me on this but you nailed it. Thank you.

[VLu]

[size=6]@jakbutler - have you tried using introscope.agent.hostName=<desired host name> in the jvm setting? It does not appear to work.


So this is how we invoke the agent. We have this in our jvm settings and the agent comes up clean.

-javaagent:/agent_home/Agent.jar -Dcom.wily.introscope.agentProfile=/agent_home/core/config/IntroscopeAgent.profile -Dcom.wily.introscope.agent.agentName=<desired agent name>

What I want to accomplish is this. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Perhaps my jvm setting for desired host name is wrong?

-javaagent:/agent_home/Agent.jar -Dcom.wily.introscope.agentProfile=/agent_home/core/config/IntroscopeAgent.profile -Dcom.wily.introscope.agent.agentName=<desired agent name> -Dcom.wily.introscope.agent.hostName=<desired host name>[size]

[Legacy User]

No, I have not tried adding that property as an argument to the JVM upon startup; I have only used it as a property in within the IntroscopeAgent.profile properties file (e.g. /agent_home/core/config/IntroscopeAgent.profile).

[VLu]

Maintenance can very expensive for a large company. We have to keep track the hostname for every single servers. I submitted an enhancement request to have the ability to include this property in the jvm startup script.

https://caideation.secure.force.com/ideation/ideaView?id=087a0000000idsvAAA

[VLu]

Just got off the phone with CA Support, you can use the following arguments in your startup script to dynamically pass in the agent name and hostname.

-Dcom.wily.introscope.agent.agentName=desired_agentname
-Dintroscope.agent.hostName=desired_hostname

Alternative, you can also use these two properties in agent.properties but your maintenance over head will be tremendous. You will have to maintain each agent.properties per server.

introscope.agent.agentName=desired_agentname
introscope.agent.hostName=desired_agentname

This is a sample of our jvm arguments to invoke the agent.

WILY_HOME=${JBOSS_HOME}/wily
WILY_JAVA_OPTS="-javaagent:${WILY_HOME}/Agent.jar -Dcom.wily.introscope.agentProfile=${WILY_HOME}/core/config/IntroscopeAgent.profile -Dcom.wily.introscope.agent.agentName=desired_agentName -Dintroscope.agent.hostName=desired_hostName"