NGINX Agent

The NGINX Agents consists of two parts:

• The NGINX Agent Server Module (slave) is the module that is loaded by the web server. It gathers the information that is used for analysis on the AppMon Server.
• The Web Server Master Agent is a separate process that collects data of all worker processes (slaves). It handles communication with the Collector and retrieves configuration data among other functions. See Web Server Maser Agent configuration to learn how to configure this master agent.

Communication

The NGINX Agent communicates with the Master Agent through these channels:

• A shared memory segment propagates configuration data, received from the Collector by the Master Agent, to the worker processes and to hold other information that must be shared across all worker processes. The shared memory segment is backed by a file in <DT_HOME>/agent/conf on all platforms where the worker processes and the Agent process must have read/write access.
• The NGINX Agents (slaves) send collected data to the Master Agent through a stateless UDP connection. The Master Agent collects the data, transforms it, and forwards it to the Collector (standalone or Server-embedded).