Support Advisory: Hierarchical Configuration Inheritance Model End of Life (EOL) Notice

Summary

As part of the Flex2HTML effort, we are deprecating the legacy transaction configuration model and UI in the 4.5.11 Controller release. In its place, we will be rolling all users to our existing Scopes-based transaction configuration model, which has been GA since 4.3 and is the default configuration model for all applications created in 4.3+. 

The API to disable the Scopes-based transaction configuration model will not be supported in 4.5.11 and later Controller versions. The 4.5.11 documentation will no longer contain any references to the legacy transaction configuration model. 

See our community post for more information.

Affected Software

The deprecation affects controller version 4.5.11. 

Resolution

Every application on the legacy transaction configuration will be automatically migrated to the Scopes-based transaction configuration. Applications already on the Scopes-based transaction configuration model are not impacted.

The Transaction Configuration page will be inaccessible during the migration. The migration requires at least 4 hours to run, followed by an additional 2.7 seconds per application. Therefore, AppDynamics estimates that the migration takes approximately 5 hours to complete for most Controllers. If your Controller has more than 10,000 applications in hierarchical based configuration, the migration could take up to 13 hours to complete. You can minimize disruption by proactively upgrading your applications to the Scopes-based configuration via the Scopes API.