APM Infrastructure Agent how to add Host Monitoring post install

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

You can't run the installer twice, so what is the recommended way to add HostMonitor to an Infrastructure  Agent if the agent has already been installed?

Environment

Release : 20.x and above

Component : APM Agents

Resolution

To add the Host Monitor extension post initial installation.

 - Stop APMIA - APMIACtrl.sh stop
 - from an agent install image that includes the HostMonitor option
     copy casystemedge-<version>.tar.gz to the apmia folder
     copy hostmonitor <version >.tar.gz to the extensions/deploy folder
  - restart the APMIA - and the script will install the Host Monitor extension

# ./APMIACtrl.sh restart
APM Infrastructure Agent is not running
APM Infrastructure Agent stop completed.
Installing Host Monitoring Agent on PORT 1691
CA SystemEDGE Version <version number> - sysedge
APM Infrastructure Agent start completed.