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 topic in the IBM Cloud Private Knowledge Center.

ICAM Agents and data collectors

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
Citrix VDI agent	Citrix VDI agent
CouchDB agent	CouchDB agent
DataPower® agent	DataPower agent
DataStage® agent	DataStage agent
Db2® agent	Db2 agent
Hadoop agent	Hadoop agent
HMC agent	HMC 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 Active Directory agent	Microsoft Active Directory 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
RabbitMQ agent	RabbitMQ 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
Sterling Connect Direct agent	Sterling Connect Direct agent
Sterling File Gateway agent	Sterling File Gateway agent
Sybase agent	Sybase agent
Tomcat agent	Software Tomcat agent
UNIX OS agent	UNIX OS agent
VMware VI agent	VMware VI agent
WebLogic agent	WebLogic 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	Go data collector Liberty data collector J2SE data collector Node.js data collector Python data collector Ruby data collector
Synthetics PoP	Synthetics PoP
Unified Agent plug-ins	UA plug-in for IBM API Connect UA plug-in for IBM MQ UA plug-in for Jaeger and Zipkin UA plug-in for NGINX UA plug-in for Redis UA plug-in for IBM App Connect Enterprise UA plug-in for DEM UA plug-in for OpenShift
DEM plug-ins	DEM plug-in for HTTP Server

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