Where should Instana host agents be deployed, and what must follow the deployment?
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Short Explanation
You put the Instana host agent where the workload is, then you confirm it reached the backend and is reporting. A successful installer only means the files landed, not that telemetry is flowing.
Full Explanation
The correct answer is deploying agents on the hosts running the workloads whose telemetry is needed, with a check afterwards that each agent has connected to the backend and is reporting. The agent collects locally, so it must run on the host carrying the workload. Verifying afterwards that it appears in the backend is what turns a completed installation into confirmed coverage.
The option placing the agent on an engineer's laptop is incorrect because an agent on a laptop monitors that laptop; it has no visibility into other hosts.
The option placing the agent on the target hosts but assuming connectivity once the installer reports success is incorrect because installation and connectivity are separate outcomes - firewalls, proxies, wrong endpoints, and bad keys can all produce a clean install and a silent agent.
The option placing the agent on the target hosts with sensors disabled until after the first discovery cycle completes is incorrect because discovery is what sensors perform; disabling them prevents the very process being waited on.
For the exam, pair correct placement with post-installation verification.