Cloud APM, Private components

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Review the descriptions of the IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management, Private images to identify which components to download.

Both of the Cloud APM, Private offerings have a set of downloadable component images. Download the images for your offering.
Important: Do not change the installation image file name for the agents or Hybrid Gateway during or after download unless you adhere to these requirements: The name must be no more than 40 characters and retain the words agents or hybrid_gateway from the original name in the new name. Otherwise, the configuration tools do not recognize the file and configuration fails.
Cloud APM server
  • Server install RHEL 64-bit image, which includes the server components:
    • Cloud APM server, including the Db2® database, the Summarization and Pruning agent, the MongoDB database, and the agent offering framework.
      • The Db2 database stores agent resource, attribute, and relationship information in the Service Component Repository (SCR). The Db2 prefetch database is a warehouse for agent metric data.
      • The Summarization and Pruning agent is configured and performs the aggregation and pruning functions for the historical data in the Db2 database.
      • The MongoDB database stores threshold event and transaction tracking data.
      • The agent offering framework is installed in the AgentFrameworks directory during the Cloud APM server installation. The agent framework is injected into agent installation images during configuration.
    • Cloud APM console, which is the user interface for the dashboards.
    • KC-CI Help server, which supports the Cloud APM console and monitoring agent help systems.
Download and install the Cloud APM server on a computer system or VM where you want the monitoring infrastructure to be installed.
For instructions on installing the Cloud APM server and supporting components, see Installing your server.
Cloud APM agents
  • Agents install image for Linux® 64-bit
  • Agents install image AIX®
For instructions on installing these agents, see Installing agents on Linux systems and Installing agents on UNIX systems.
  • Agents install image for Windows 64-bit
  • Agents install image for Windows 32-bit
For instructions on installing these agents on Windows systems, see Installing agents on Windows systems.

You have three options for downloading the agent images:

  • Download the agent images to the system where you downloaded the Cloud APM server installation image. The agent images can be mounted on an NFS partition but must be accessible by using the file system. You can configure the agent images when prompted during the installation of the server and copy the configured images to the system where the applications that you want to monitor are installed.
  • Download the agent images to the system where the applications that you want to monitor are installed. After you install the server, create configuration packages for connecting the agents to the server. Copy the configuration packages to the system where you downloaded the agent images, and configure the agent images.
  • Download the agent images to any system in your environment. On the system where you installed the server, create configuration packages for connecting the agents to the server. Copy the configuration packages to the system where the agent images are downloaded, configure the agent images, and download them to the system where the applications that you want to monitor are installed.
The monitoring agents are autonomous and have no infrastructure other than what is provided by the Cloud APM server for data sharing. Both the performance and size footprint on individual nodes is small. Data retention is local and short term.
Cloud APM data collectors (available only in Cloud APM, Advanced Private)
  • Data collectors image for AIX
  • Data collectors image for Linux
  • Data collectors image for Windows
Download the data collector images, configure the downloaded images for server communication, and then configure the data collector for monitoring your applications. For instructions about how to configure the image for server communication, see Configuring the downloaded images. For instructions about how to configure the data collector for monitoring, see the subsections for your concerned applications in Configuring your environment.
Cloud APM reports
  • Cloud APM reports image, which contains Cognos®-based reports for examining device statistics and application performance in detail.
You must install Tivoli® Common Reporting before you install the reports image. For more information about the version of Tivoli Common Reporting to install and how to configure and install the Cloud APM reports, see Integrating with Tivoli Common Reporting.
Agent Builder
  • Agent Builder image, which contains the Agent Builder toolkit for creating custom agents to extend the resources that you can monitor.
  • Agent Builder language pack.
For instructions on installing the Agent Builder stand-alone toolkit for multiple platforms, see Agent Builder.
Hybrid Gateway
  • Hybrid Gateway image, which contains a component for environments with IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents.
If your environment includes IBM Tivoli Monitoring products that you want to view in the Cloud APM console, you can download and install the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management Hybrid Gateway image. You have the same choices as for the agent images to download and configure the Hybrid Gateway image, and you can download the Hybrid Gateway at the same time and to the same system as the agent images. The only difference is that the Hybrid Gateway is installed in your Tivoli Monitoring environment on a single Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.

For instructions on installing the Hybrid Gateway, see Integrating with IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3.