RE: Appdynamics -

Mangesh Vidhale — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:04:32 GMT

Hi Pavithra,

I was able to configure appdynamics java agent for appian successfully with following execution steps and it's still working as expected.

AppDynamics: Instrumenting Java agent in JBoss
Appdynamics KB article - docs.appdynamics.com/.../JBoss and Wildfly Startup Settings

Steps:
1. Copy and download java agent package
File name: AppServerAgent-4.4.2.22394.zip (This unpacks and has the java agent and other dependent files)

2. Create dir AppD inside /apps (directory structure may vary)
Login to server
$ cd /apps
$ mkdir AppD

3. Unpack AppServerAgent-4.4.2.22394.zip into /apps/AppD directory
$ unzip AppServerAgent-4.4.2.22394.zip -d /apps/AppD

4. Locate, edit and save file controller-info.xml
• Goto /apps/AppD/conf
• Open controller-info.xml (vi controller-info.xml)
• Configure for following parameter with values (values will varies as per your controller)

controller-host --> your appdynamics controller
controller-port --> 443
application-name --> e.g. Your Appian Dev/QA app name
tier-name --> e.g. tier-name
node-name --> e.g. node-name
account-name --> appdynamics account name
account-access-key --> appdynamics account access key
force-agent-registration --> true

5. Configure JBoss startup scripts
(Refer link docs.appdynamics.com/.../JBoss and Wildfly Startup Settings)
• Stop Appian
• Locate and edit standalone.sh (cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh). Add following line to standalone.sh
For e.g.

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -javaagent:/apps/AppD/javaagent.jar”

6. Add following property at the end to Appian’s custom.properties file
$ vi $APPIAN_HOME/ear/suite.ear/conf/custom.properties
conf.plugins.internal.EXTRA_BOOT_DELEGATION_PKGS=com.singularity.*

7. Start Appian engines, start search server and then start JBoss server

Following message should appear on JBoss CLI while startup and JBoss should come up entirely.

Started AppDynamics Java Agent Successfully.

I hope it helps you to resolve the error and make it working.

Thanks,
Mangesh

RE: Appdynamics -

pavithraj0001 — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:53:53 GMT

Thanks Mangesh for taking time on this.
We already tried adding that in custom.properties, it didn't work either.

Thanks,
Pavithra

RE: Appdynamics -

Mangesh Vidhale — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:43:45 GMT

Hi,

You need to add following property to custom.properties file of Appian installation and restart Jboss. The above error should go away.

## for Appdynamics to setup java agent
conf.plugins.internal.EXTRA_BOOT_DELEGATION_PKGS=com.singularity.*

Thanks,
Mangesh