Prepare to Configure the .NET Agent
- Install the .NET Agent for Windows.
- You need these account credentials based on your installation type:
- Single-tenant: Membership in a role with the View License account level permission. See Manage Custom Roles for Splunk AppDynamics.
- Multi-tenant or SaaS: Your Splunk AppDynamics Welcome Email that contains your account credentials.
- Uninstall any pre-existing profiler, such as Ant, VS 2010 Performance Tools, or others. The configuration utility alerts you if it finds a pre-existing profiler.
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Determine your tier naming scheme:
- Manual
- Pre-configured using Config Management in the Controller
Note: The must restart IIS to apply configurations. The utility offers you the option to restart IIS or not. If you choose not to restart, configurations apply the next time IIS restarts.
These Windows accounts require specific file system permissions:
- The account you use to run your web application as defined by its application pool, or the Windows service account.
- The account you use to run the Splunk AppDynamics Agent Coordinator, by default the Local System account.
The required permissions are:
- Write permission to the .NET App Agent logs directory. Default: Windows Server 2008 and later:
%ProgramData%\AppDynamics\DotNetAgent\Logs - Read and Execute permissions to the .NET App Agent install directory. Default:
C:\Program Files\AppDynamics\AppDynamics .NET Agent - Read and Execute permissions in the web application installation directory.For example:
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapp