System requirements

For the IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management agents and data collectors, various operating systems are supported and each component has specific requirements. The Cloud APM server requirements vary depending on the number of agents you want to use for monitoring data sources and whether you use your own Db2® server.

Permissions

You must have root permissions to install and run the Cloud APM server. Running the Cloud APM server as a non-root user is not supported.

After the Cloud APM server is installed, you cannot change the permissions of the Cloud APM files and directories. In addition, you cannot change the user or group owners of these files and directories.

Time zone

Use Network Time Protocol (NTP) on managed systems and on the system where the Cloud APM server is installed to ensure that the time is accurate. Setting the time to match the physical location of the servers (such as UTC-03:00 for Brasilia and UTC +06:30 for Yangon) helps ensure accurate time stamps for events and transactions.

Cloud APM agent and data collector requirements

Obtain information about the requirements for each monitoring agent and stand-alone data collector that you plan to install.

Cloud APM agent and data collectors in general are hypervisor transparent, which means they can be installed and deployed on any supported operating systems regardless of the hypervisors that the operating systems are hosted on, such as Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM, KVM, VMWare ESX, and so on.

For the agent and data collector requirements, generate a report from for the selected agent or data collector:
  1. Open the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports for IBM Cloud Application Performance Management - Agents V8.1.
  2. Expand the Report filters twisty and click the Edit button.
  3. Edit the report filters for the agent or data collector that you want to review and click Apply to generate the report.
For example, if you want to see the requirements for the Cisco UCS agent , clear all the Agent or Client check boxes and select the Monitoring Agent for Cisco UCS check box before you click Apply.

The local computer system where the agent is installed must support UTF-8 encoding if the agent sends globalized data to the Cloud APM server.

Cloud APM server requirements

For up-to-date information about server requirements, such as operating systems and their versions, databases, and web browsers, select the Software Product Compatibility Report for your offering: When the report is displayed, click the Prerequisites tab to see the browser and database requirements. Click the Operating Systems tab to see the operating system requirements for the server.

For information about the Db2 server users and groups that are created by the Cloud APM server installation, see the Preparing to install your server topic.