dynatrace Cookbook

This Chef cookbook installs and configures the Dynatrace Application Monitoring solution.

Requirements

Requires Chef 11 or higher.

Recipes

default

Installs the Dynatrace Server. Please refer to the server Chef Recipe below.

agents_package

Installs the Dynatrace Agents package.

Download the Dynatrace Agents package from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-agents.jar (Linux) or as dynatrace-agents.msi (Windows) in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['agents_package'][...]['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/agents_package.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::agents_package] in a runlist.

Note: this recipe merely makes the Dynatrace Agents available, but it does not configure your application to actually load any. See the java_agent recipe for an example that does.

apache_wsagent

Installs the Dynatrace WebServer Agent for the Apache HTTP Server.

Download the Dynatrace WebServer Agent installer from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-wsagent.tar in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['wsagent_package']['linux']['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/apache_wsagent.rb and attributes/wsagent_package.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::apache_wsagent] in a runlist.

Note: you will have to restart the web server after placing the agent.

collector

Installs the Dynatrace Collector.

Download the Dynatrace Collector installer from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-collector.jar in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['collector']['linux']['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/collector.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::collector] in a runlist.

Note: make sure that attributes related to the Collector's memory configuration are set in accordance to the Memory Configuration section of the Collector Configuration documentation.

dotnet_agent

Installs the Dynatrace .NET Agent.

Download the Dynatrace Agents package from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-agents.jar (Linux) or in dynatrace-agents.msi (Windows) in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['agents_package'][...]['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/dotnet_agent.rb and attributes/agents_package.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::dotnet_agent] in a runlist.

iis_wsagent

Installs the Dynatrace WebServer Agent for the Microsoft IIS Server.

Download the Dynatrace WebServer Agent installer from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-agents.msiin the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['wsagent_package']['windows']['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/iis_wsagent.rb and attributes/wsagent_package.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::iis_wsagent] in a runlist.

java_agent

Installs the Dynatrace Agent Java Agent.

Download the Dynatrace Agent package from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-agents.jar in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['agents_package']['linux']['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/java_agent.rb and attributes/agents_package.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::java_agent] in a runlist.

Note: this recipe makes the Java Agent available to a Java Virtual Machine by injecting an appropriate -agentpath option into an environment variable, e.g. JAVA_OPTS, inside a file (typically an executable script). It is assumed that this script either executes the Java process directly or is sourced by another script before the Java process gets executed. You will have to restart the application after placing the agent.

memory_analysis_server

Download the Dynatrace Memory Analysis Server installer from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-analysisserver.jar in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['memory_analysis_server']['linux']['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/memory_analysis_server.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::memory_analysis_server] in a runlist.

Note: make sure that attributes related to the Analysis Server's memory configuration are set in accordance to the Memory Configuration section of the Memory Analysis Server Configuration documentation.

server

Installs the Dynatrace Server.

Download the Dynatrace Server installer from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace.jar in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['server']['linux']['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/server.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::server] in a runlist.

server_license

Installs the Dynatrace Server License.

Place the Dynatrace Server License as dynatrace-license.key in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the license available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['server']['license']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/server.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::server_license] in a runlist.

wsagent_package

Installs the Dynatrace WebServer Agent package.

Download the Dynatrace WebServer Agent package from downloads.dynatrace.com and place the artifact as dynatrace-wsagent.jar (Linux) or as dynatrace-wsagent.msi (Windows) in the cookbook's files directory. Alternatively, you can make the installer available as an HTTP or FTP resource and point the Chef Recipe to the right location via the node['dynatrace']['wsagent_package'][...]['installer']['file_url'] attribute. Please refer to attributes/wsagent_package.rb for a list of supported attributes. In order to have the Chef Recipe executed, include recipe[dynatrace::wsagent_package] in a runlist.

Note: this recipe merely makes the Dynatrace WebServer Agent available, but it does not configure your web server to actually load it. See the apache_wsagent and iis_agentrecipes for examples.

Testing

We use Test Kitchen to automatically test our automated deployments with Serverspec and RSpec:

1) Install Test Kitchen and its dependencies from within the project's directory:

gem install bundler
bundle install

2) Run all tests

kitchen test

By default, we run our tests inside Docker containers as this considerably speeds up testing time (see .kitchen.yml, requires Ruby 2.2+). Alternatively, you may as well run these tests in virtual machines based on VirtualBox and Vagrant (see .kitchen.vagrant.yml).

Platforms

Linux

• CentOS 6.5
• Debian 7.4
• Ubuntu 12.04

Windows

• Windows 2012 R2

Questions?

Feel free to post your questions on the Dynatrace Community's Continuous Delivery Forum.

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.