Installing your agents

Install monitoring agents on the systems where the corresponding applications that you want to monitor are located. For agents that support remote monitoring, you can install these agents on a different machine than where the monitored resource is located. The stand-alone data collectors do not require installation.

If you choose stand-alone data collectors to monitor your applications, you can skip the installation procedure. However, you must first configure the downloaded data collector images for communication between the Cloud APM server and data collectors. If you did not select the option to configure the data collector images when you installed the server, follow the instructions as documented in Configuring the downloaded images to configure the downloaded image. Otherwise, continue to Configuring your environment for instructions about how to configure data collectors for monitoring your applications.

Remote monitoring

Some agents can be installed remotely from the resource that they are monitoring. The following agents support remote monitoring:
  • Monitoring Agent for Amazon EC2
  • Monitoring Agent for AWS Elastic Load Balancer
  • Monitoring Agent for Azure Compute
  • Monitoring Agent for Cassandra
  • Monitoring Agent for Cisco UCS
  • Monitoring Agent for Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
  • Monitoring Agent for DataPower® - This agent can be installed only on a remote machine.
  • Monitoring Agent for Db2®
  • Monitoring Agent for Hadoop
  • Monitoring Agent for HMC Base
  • Monitoring Agent for IBM Cloud
  • Monitoring Agent for InfoSphere® DataStage®
  • Monitoring Agent for JBoss® - If you want to use this agent for resource monitoring, install it remotely or locally. If you want to use the agent for transaction tracking and deep dive diagnostics, install it locally.
  • Monitoring Agent for Linux® KVM
  • Monitoring Agent for MariaDB
  • Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Cluster Server
  • Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Office 365
  • Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server
  • Monitoring Agent for MongoDB
  • Monitoring Agent for MySQL
  • Monitoring Agent for NetApp Storage
  • Monitoring Agent for OpenStack
  • Monitoring Agent for Oracle Database
  • Monitoring Agent for PostgreSQL
  • Monitoring Agent for RabbitMQ
  • Monitoring Agent for SAP Applications
  • Monitoring Agent for SAP HANA Database
  • Monitoring Agent for SAP NetWeaver Java™ Stack - If you want to use this agent for resource monitoring, install it remotely or locally. If you want to use the agent for transaction tracking and deep dive diagnostics, install it locally.
  • Monitoring Agent for Sterling Connect Direct
  • Monitoring Agent for Sterling File Gateway
  • Monitoring Agent for VMware VI
  • Monitoring Agent for WebLogic - If you want to use this agent for resource monitoring, install it remotely or locally. If you want to use the agent for transaction tracking and deep dive diagnostics, install it locally.