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How to managed/unmanaged Watchdog of APM Agent Builder Agent after installing it.

How To


Summary

The watchdog function of Agent Builder Agent can be configured by using "Monitor this agent by default" in Agent Builder before building Agent. After installing the agent, there is a case that the setting of the watchdog function should be changed. However, there is no information of watchdog in APM manuals.

Steps

Since Agent Builder generates k<pc>_default.xml files normally and the files are automatically installed in <install_dir>/config/CAP directory even though the agent was built without checking "Monitor this agent by default", you can edit the K<pc>_default.xml file and change the managerType field if they want to switch it to managed/unmanaged by default.  
1. edit managerType field of k<pc>_default.xml file as the following:
<managerType>ProxyAgentServices</managerType> when the agent is managed by default.
<managerType>NotManaged</managerType> when the agent isn't managed by default.
2. restart OS Agent
   or
   remove the k<pc>_default.xml file (Watchdog will discover after a couple of minutes that it's gone) and then copy back in the updated version of the file (Watchdog will discover it and start using it)

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
31 March 2019

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ibm10879241