Agent name error

Products

• CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• CA Application Performance Management (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• INTROSCOPE
• DX Application Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

Under MOM logs we can see a lot of message regard the Agent name as below:

 [ERROR] [PO:main Mailman 2] [Manager.MessageService] Exception: com.wily.util.exception.UnexpectedExceptionError: Error creating agent name ("ignored||Docker Process|star-receive-fast-eligibility" is not a legal Agent name.) calling method: com.wily.isengard.messageprimitives.service.MessageServiceCallMessage: {com.wily.introscope.spec.server.beans.loadbalancing.ILoadBalancer.getCollectorReconnectList, v1, [, 172.21.0.2, Docker Process, star-receive-fast-eligibility, 315, default, false], source: Agent_246551.client_main:259, remoteHost: Node=Agent_246551,  Type=socket}

 

Environment

Application Performance Management in any release.

Cause

This happens due to the hyphen (-) put when creating the Agent name.

Resolution

To correct this, you should remove the hyphen from the Agent name as below:

Generating problem:
Docker Process|star-receive-fast-eligibility

Suggestion to solve, remove the hyphen from the name:
Docker Process|StarReceiveFastEligibility