Deployment Tasks
Depending on your specific requirements and environment, deployment tasks may include:
- Ensure that target systems meet the Controller System Requirements for the Controller's expected workload.
- Implement Controller High Availability to ensure service continuity in the event of a failure of the Controller server.
- Configure the network environment. If deploying the Controller with a reverse proxyNo Content found for /db/organizations/splunk/repositories/appdonprem-26_6_0/AppDynamics/documents/content/on_premises/c_use_a_reverse_proxy.dita, configure passthrough of Controller traffic. Also, note other Network RequirementsNo Content found for /db/organizations/splunk/repositories/appdonprem-26_6_0/AppDynamics/documents/content/on_premises/c_network_requirements_2.dita for the deployment environment.
- Implement security requirements for your environment. If clients will connect to the Controller by HTTPS, install your custom SSL server certificate on the Controller.
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- Make sure the mail server is properly configured for the Controller in the target environment and define your alerting strategy.
- Devise your backup strategy. A typical backup strategy consists of frequent partial backups with intermittent full backups.
- Plan your configuration maintenance and enhancement strategy. Changes to the configuration should be staged in a non-critical environment, and rolled into the live environment only after thorough testing. The Splunk AppDynamics UI and REST API offer the ability to export and import configuration settings from various contexts.
- Deploying App Agents is likely to be an ongoing task, especially in dynamic environments where monitored systems are regularly taken down and new ones brought up. There are two basic strategies for deploying large numbers of App Agents across a managed environment:
- Deploy the agents independently of the application inside the application server. This method ensures that re-deployments of the application do not overwrite the agent deployment.
- Integrate deployment of Splunk AppDynamics agents into the deployment of applications. This more sophisticated approach requires modifying the existing application deployment automation scripts.