[Anthill-pro] Can we set our own agent.id property?

[Peter Steele]

It's going to be even worse than I originally stated. We've decided to
delete all of our existing agents and reinstall them with custom agent
ids. That means I'll have to recreate 200+ agents. We can automate the
software installation aspect of the process. The final step though is
setting the environment/security for each agent. I really hope there is
a way to automate this...

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I'd be also very interested in the answer of this question.

regards
emerson

On 30/07/2008, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com> wrote:
> Okay, that's exactly what my tests seemed to show. That's good; this
> will really simplify our lives. The other related issue is how to
> automate the addition of multiple agents simultaneously. We're about
to
> add 50+ agents and each one needs to be placed in the appropriate
> environment and have the proper security settings assigned. It seems
we
> have to do this one agent at a time, and this can get very tedious for
> large numbers of agents. Is there any way to automate this process?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com
> [mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] On Behalf Of Ryan
Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:13 AM
> To: AnthillPro user and support list.
> Subject: Re: [Anthill-pro] Can we set our own agent.id property?
>
> Peter,
>
> Yes you can set it. It is best to set it during the installation or
just
>
> after installation and before first starting the agent. We only ask
that
>
> you make it unique.
>
> Change the id of an existing agent will make it appear as if a new
agent
>
> is installed and the old one will not be usable.
>
>
> Ryan
>
> Peter Steele wrote:
> >
> > When a new agent is installed the field agent.id in the
> > agent.properties file is auto-generated as a unique key, e.g.
> >
> > locked/agent.id=emNqOTBqM2F6M3oweHlzdjQ1Nj
> >
> > Can we set this field ourselves? More specifically, after installing
> > an agent and before starting it for the first time, can we set this
> > field to
> >
> > locked/agent.id=<hostname>
> >
> > where <hostname> is the name of the machine where this agent is
> > installed. The reasons we need to do this are long and complex and I
> > won't elaborate here, at least for now. I've done some simple tests
> > and Anthill doesn't seem to mind if we set this property manually.
I'd
>
> > like some verification though from the experts whether this is safe
to
>
> > do. Thanks.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
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