System requirements

Before installing the IBM® Cloud App Management server, review the server hardware and software requirements. Before installing the ICAM Agents, or Kubernetes data collector review the prerequisites.

IBM Cloud App Management hardware requirements
For details regarding CPU, RAM, VMs, and disk space requirements, see Planning hardware and sizing.
IBM Cloud App Management server software requirements
For details on supported operating systems and platform, view the IBM Cloud App Management detailed system requirements report.
For details on supported browsers, see the Supported browsers launch icon topic in the IBM Cloud Private Knowledge Center.
ICAM Agents and Kubernetes data collector
For details on the supported operating systems for each agent, review the following table. The table provides a link to the detailed system requirements report for each agent:
Table 1. Supported operating systems for agents
Agents and data collectors System requirements
Amazon EC2 agent Amazon EC2 agent
Amazon ELB agent Amazon ELB agent
Azure Compute agent Azure Compute agent
Cisco UCS agent Cisco UCS agent
DataPower® agent DataPower agent
DataStage® agent DataStage agent
Db2® agent Db2 agent
Hadoop agent Hadoop agent
Hyper-V Server agent Hyper-V Server agent
HTTP Server agent HTTP Server agent
JBoss agent JBoss agent
IBM Integration Bus agent IBM Integration Bus agent
Linux OS agent Linux OS agent
Linux KVM agent Linux KVM agent
MariaDB agent MariaDB agent
Microsoft .NET agent Microsoft .NET agent
Microsoft Cluster Server agent Microsoft Cluster Server agent
Microsoft Exchange Server agent Microsoft Exchange Server agent
Microsoft IIS agent Microsoft IIS agent
Microsoft Office 365 agent Microsoft Office 365 agent
Microsoft SharePoint Server agent Microsoft SharePoint Server agent
Microsoft SQL Server agent Microsoft SQL Server agent
MongoDB agent MongoDB agent
MySQL agent MySQL agent
NetApp Storage agent NetApp Storage agent
Oracle Database agent Oracle Database agent
PostgreSQL agent PostgreSQL agent
SAP agent SAP agent
SAP HANA Database agent SAP HANA Database agent
SAP NetWeaver Java™ Stack agent SAP NetWeaver Java Stack agent
Skype for Business Server agent Skype for Business Server agent
Tomcat agent Software Tomcat agent
UNIX OS agent UNIX OS agent
VMware VI agent VMware VI agent
WebSphere® Applications agent WebSphere Applications agent
WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent WebSphere Infrastructure Manager agent
IBM MQ(formerly WebSphere MQ) agent IBM MQ(formerly WebSphere MQ) agent
Windows OS agent Windows OS agent
Kubernetes data collector Kubernetes data collector
Runtime data collectors

Liberty data collector

J2SE data collector

Node.js data collector

Python data collector
Synthetics PoP Synthetics PoP

Supported docker versions

IBM Cloud Private provides Docker packages that can be used for installation on boot and cluster nodes. This package is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu systems only. For more information, see the Supported Docker Versions launch icon topic in the IBM Cloud Private Knowledge Center.

Supported file system and storage types

Storage class recommendations are local storage or vSphere. You are prompted to select one of these storage types during the IBM Cloud App Management installation. For more information see Determine the storage type to use in the Planning your deployment topic