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Understand and learn how to setup new agent environment on this page.


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Table of Contents

Extend Base Agent

  • Extend Base Agent.py file present in the agent directory.

Define config.json file

  • All complex JSON Objects should be kept under property name "dynamicTemplate". For example, Arrays, Properties having sub-properties as a JSON Object.
  • "responseTemplate" shall always be part of the dynamicTemplate, to capture the response from the external tool.

  • Th below dynamicTemplate example is for GitHub.

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    titleDynamic Template Format

    "dynamicTemplate": {
         "responseTemplate": {
              "sha": "commitId",
               "commit": {
                   "author": {
                         "name": "authorName",
                         "date": "commitTime"
                           }
                   }
               }
     }


Update installagent.sh file

  • Update "installagent.sh" file if the OS is other than Linux or Ubuntu.

Steps to upgrade existing Agents

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1. Stop all existing running agents

2. Take backup of existing agent code

3. Note down last run date/time from tracking.json

4. Let Insights Engine consume all queues data. Verify all the queues have 0 pending data

5. Shut down Insights Engine.

6. Undeploy PlatformService WAR

7. Take back up of AGENT_CONFIGURATION table in PostgreSQL

8. DELETE all records from AGENT_CONFIGURATION table in PostgreSQL after taking backup

9. Deploy new PlatformService WAR and verify it has created below new columns in AGENT_CONFIGURATION table - 

  • agent_key
  • agent_status
  • agent_version
  • os_version

10. Run SQL DDL script –

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ALTER TABLE public.agent_configuration ADD CONSTRAINT agentKeyUnique UNIQUE(unique_key);

11. Run below SQL query to register Daemon Agent -

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INSERT INTO public.agent_configuration(

            id, agent_id, agent_json, agent_key, agent_status, agent_version,

            data_update_supported, os_version, tool_category, tool_name,

            unique_key, update_date)

VALUES (1, 0,'','daemon-1523257126' ,'' ,'' , FALSE,'' , 'DAEMONAGENT', 'AGENTDAEMON', 'daemon-1523257126', current_date);

12. Follow Agent 2.0 installation steps

13. Register all required agents using Agent management screen in Admin tab.

  • While registering, startTime should be from the time it was last update in tracking.json as mentioned above in step #3

14. Run latest new updated Insights Engine Jar

15. Validate all agents are running successfully and collecting data as usual


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