Controller information settings permit the agent to connect to the Controller. Some settings are required for all applications, while others are needed only for certain types of application environments. For example, if the agent needs to connect to the Controller via an internal proxy in your network, you need to set up the connection settings for the proxy. See C/C++ SDK Reference for a list of the settings and information about which ones are required.

In your application, assign values to the required settings.

For example, to set the Controller connection information:

const char APP_NAME[] = "SampleC";
const char TIER_NAME[] = "SampleCTier1";
const char NODE_NAME[] = "SampleCNode1";
const char CONTROLLER_HOST[] = "controller.somehost.com";
const int CONTROLLER_PORT = 8080;
const char CONTROLLER_ACCOUNT[] = "customer1";
const char CONTROLLER_ACCESS_KEY[] = "MyAccessKey";
const int CONTROLLER_USE_SSL = 0;

To create the default application context, declare an appd_config struct with the Controller settings.

For example:

struct appd_config* cfg = appd_config_init(); // appd_config_init() resets the configuration object and pass back an handle/pointer
appd_config_set_app_name(cfg, APP_NAME);
appd_config_set_tier_name(cfg, TIER_NAME);
appd_config_set_node_name(cfg, NODE_NAME);
appd_config_set_controller_host(cfg, CONTROLLER_HOST);
appd_config_set_controller_port(cfg, CONTROLLER_PORT);
appd_config_set_controller_account(cfg, CONTROLLER_ACCOUNT);
appd_config_set_controller_access_key(cfg, CONTROLLER_ACCESS_KEY);
appd_config_set_controller_use_ssl(cfg, CONTROLLER_USE_SSL);