By default, the Machine Agent reports metrics for network-mounted and local disks only. Additionally to ensure backward compatibility with previous versions of Splunk AppDynamics, only the external network traffic is aggregated.

You can customize the default behavior by modifying the auto-generated configuration file, task-template.xml. The task-template.xml file provides information about the current configuration of the Machine Agent and is created when you first start up the agent. It discovers the disks and network hardware on the machine where it is installed that the agent can monitor.