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 Agents in Topology on Dseries Server versus the Agent server IP address (reports from Telemetry)

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Judy Huntington posted Aug 05, 2022 09:06 PM
We are on CA espdseries 12.2.   I 'inherited' the setup of the CAWA servers and Agent configurations from 11.3 right before we migrated to 12.2 and none of the people who setup 11.3 are around and I cannot find explanations for how Agents (Agent names in topology) and the actual ip address where the agent is installed is counted when running GETTELEMTRYUSAGE.  

On our development CAWA server  'ESP_DEV'  there are 3 Agent Names (migrated from 11.3)  as ex.  REPORT_AGENT,  REPORT_AGT_A, REPORT_AGT_B  all have the same hosting IP address and are Linux servers.   

The Agent for this is installed on a single computer/server (ipaddress dummY) 111.11.111.1111
As for the way the previous admin set up the agentparm.txt, it shows as this:
      agentname=REPORT_AGENT
      communication.alias_1=REPORT_AGT_A
      communication.alias_2=REPORT_AGT_B

communication.managerid_1=ESP_DEV
communication.manageraddress_1= (real ip address of cawa scheduling manager)
communication.managerport_1=7507
communication.monitorobject_1=REPORT_AGENT/AGENTMON1.0/MAIN

From what I can find in documentation, this isn't quite right for Agent aliases

Note:  in addition to the CAWA Server system Agent ESP_DEV and these 3, we have 2 other agents listed in TOPOLOGY 

When running GETTELEMETRYUSAGE, it shows that we used 6 Agents (all the ones in TOPOLOGY including the ESP_DEV).   

In my predecessor's documentation for the the physical Agent server 111.11.111.1111 - REPORT_AGENT, they say that this is counted as 1 Agent only since it is on the same server and that the other 2 are just 'aliases'

So bottom line, twofold question.    To determine number of Agents being used, is it every one listed in the TOPOLOGY (and therefore the db) regardless of what ip address in which case 6 would be valid for this example?     Secondly, is the is the agentparm.txt really set up correctly?

Ravi Kiran Kunduri's profile image
Broadcom Employee Ravi Kiran Kunduri
Hi,

Coming to the query on agent alias , generally alias are used when plugins(database, informatica, peoplesoft, etc) are installed on the system agent . So each plugin will have same ipaddress/port but their functionality is different(like they can be used to run database jobs , informatica , peoplesoft job types , etc)


So the way agent is configured with alias looks good. And if you have added the same agent as 3 different agent types , then it will be counted as 3.

Hope it helps!
Ravi Kiran