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Requirements for the monitoring agent
In addition to the requirements described in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide, agents typically have agent-specific requirements.
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Agentless Monitor for Linux has the following agent-specific requirements:
- Use the following link for information about the requirements for Agentless Monitoring: Summary for OS Agents & TEMA (Tivoli Enterprise Management Agent)
- If you are running this monitoring agent on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, SELinux must not be enabled.
- If running this monitoring agent on a Windows operating system, the User ID must have Administrator privileges.
- This agent monitors the following versions:
- Linux Operating Systems server, 4 desktop, 5 server, 5 desktop, 9, 9, 10, 10
- A single computer that hosts the hub monitoring server, portal server, and a monitoring agent requires approximately 300 MB of space. A computer that hosts only the monitoring agent requires approximately 30 MB of space, including the specific enablement code for the monitoring agent. More space is required for each additional monitoring agent that you deploy on the monitoring computer.
- Linux versions require some compatibility libraries to be installed for the agent to work correctly. The latest versions of the libstdc++, libgcc, and compat-libstdc++ libraries are required for the agent to run correctly. Linux RedHat 4 and 5, and SuSE 9 and 10 also require the C++ Runtime 6.0 library (libstdc++.so.6).
- The monitoring agent must be connected to the following software:
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 or later.
The following software is required for the Agentless Monitor for Linux to operate:
- Agentless Monitor for Linux
- Agentless Monitor for Linux for Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server support
- Agentless Monitor for Linux for Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server support
- Agentless Monitor for Linux for Tivoli Enterprise Portal Desktop Client support
- Agentless Monitor for Linux for Tivoli Enterprise Portal Browser Client support
To collect metrics through the Windows APIs, the Agentless Windows OS Monitor must be hosted on a Windows operating system, and remote registry administration must be enabled on the remote systems.
The Agentless Monitor for Linux has the following limitations:
- The agent can report processor utilization only as an aggregated system-wide value. There is no way to identify the utilization of an individual processor.
- The agent may show incorrect values for very large mounted file systems, due to size restrictions within the IBM Tivoli Monitoring framework.
The itmcmd command-line interface does now allow you to override a default configuration parameter when configuring your monitoring agent.
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