Foglight 5.9.3 - System Requirements and Platform Support Guide

Multi-tier hardware requirements

To install Foglight® in a multi-tier configuration, you must have separate hardware for each of the Management Server (JVM) and database repository. The requirements are listed below.

Agent Manager resource requirements

Foglight® Agent Manager uses minimal system resources, whether running on a monitored host or monitoring remotely. The amount used depends on a variety of factors including the number of agents running on the monitored host, the amount of data being collected, and whether the Management Server is running.

CAUTION: This section is intended to provide general information that is applicable to most Foglight installations. You should not consider doing a production implementation without conducting a proper scoping and sizing exercise with a qualified Quest representative.

The following table lists the system resources typically used by the Agent Manager while it is running.

Supported platforms

This chapter lists the platforms supported for the Foglight® Management Server and database repository, for the Foglight Agent Manager, and for the Operating System cartridge. It also lists the requirements for other software used with Foglight.

Supported platforms for the Management Server

The Foglight® Management Server is supported on the platforms listed in the following table. These platforms have passed quality assurance testing with Foglight.

IMPORTANT: Foglight will be discontinuing support for the following operating systems starting with the next Foglight release: 32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, Solaris SPARC64, and Solaris 86-64. If you are still using these platforms and need further assistance, contact Quest Support.

On 64-bit RPM-based Linux platforms, the 32-bit version of libgcc*.rpm must be installed for the installer and Management Server to run. On 64-bit Ubuntu, the ia32-libs package must be installed.

Embedded database is not supported on this version.

See the Support Policy on Virtualization on our support portal for important information on using Foglight in virtual environments.

Foglight™ requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run, both for the Management Server and for the Agent Manager that runs on monitored hosts.

Foglight installs the JREs it needs, but you must ensure that any machine that will run a component of Foglight has its operating system patched to the minimum patch level required to support this JRE. This release of Foglight uses the following Java versions:

Check with your operating system vendor for the latest operating system patches required to run this version of Java on your system. Foglight cannot check this during installation.