Smart Agent allows you to manage the agent operations (install, upgrade, and rollback) for the supported agents by using the Controller user interface.
You can also use smartagentctl binary to install Smart Agent. This binary is bundled with Smart Agent.
You can use the Controller UI to view all the installed agents with the inventory details. The Smart Agent inventory is also displayed along with other agent inventory details.
You must install Smart Agent on each host where you want to use the Controller UI to perform the agent management.
Before You Begin
Ensure you meet the following requirements to use Smart Agent:
- Splunk AppDynamics Controller version >=24.7.0
- Sufficient agent licenses
- Required permissions. See Permissions to determine the user permissions required to run Smart Agent.
- Required Memory:
10MB -15MB Idle and 100MB during install, upgrade, or rollback - Required Disk:
500 MB
Smart Agent is supported on the following platforms:
- CentOS Stream 8.x, 9.x
- RedHat 8.x, 9.x
- Ubuntu 18 or higher
Windows 2016, 2019, 2022
To view the list of agents that are supported on the specific platforms, see Supported Agents.
Supported Agents
Currently, Smart Agent manages the following agents and supports them on the platforms as mentioned in the table:
- The supported agents can be installed as a service or as a process. When you install it as a process, the process does not restart automatically as it happens when installed as a service.
- You cannot monitor the Machine Agent Extension through the UI. During an upgrade, existing extensions will get carried forward to the higher version.
- You cannot configure the Machine Agent Remediation script through the UI.
| Agents | Supported Platform |
|---|
Apache Web Server | - CentOS 8 and 9
- RHEL 8 and 9
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04
|
Database Agent | - CentOS 8 and 9
- RHEL 8 and 9
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04
|
Java | - CentOS 8 and 9
- RHEL 8 and 9
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04
- Windows 2016, 2019, and 2022
|
Machine Agent | - CentOS 8 and 9
- RHEL 8 and 9
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04
- Windows 2016, 2019, and 2022
|
Node.js | - RHEL 8 and 9
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04
- Debian 10, 11, and 12
|
PHP | |
Python | - CentOS 8 and 9
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04
- Alpine
|
.NET MSI | Windows 2016, 2019, 2022 |
Permissions
You require the following permissions to use Smart Agent:
Install Permissions
You require sudo/root/admin access to run Smart Agent as a service. You can use non-root permissions to run Smart Agent as a process.
Smart Agent Service Permissions
The Smart Agent service can be configured to run with a given user and group during installation by setting APPD_USERand APPD_GROUP environment variables during installation. The values of user and group you want to use depends on the agents you want to manage. The following table lists the required user and group values for each agent:
| Agent Type | APPD_USER | APPD_GROUP |
|---|
| PHP | root | root |
| Apache | root | root |
| Java | anyUser | anyUser |
| Python | root | root |
| Nodejs | anyUser | anyUser |
Machine | root | root |
Database | anyUser | anyUser |
You can install Machine Agent as non-root user. See custom configuration for Machine Agent on Install Agents.
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