Foglight 5.9.1 - 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.

Table 3. Management Server (32-bit and 64-bit platforms)

32-bit

64-bit

CPU

2-way 2.4 GHz CPUs—one of the following:

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3 GB for Management Server
(2 GB for Heap, 1 GB for JavaTM Virtual Machine)

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1 GB for operating system

8 GB in total:

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6 GB for Management Server
(4 GB for Heap, 2 GB for Java Virtual Machine)

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2 GB for operating system

Storage

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40 GB, 7200 RPM hard disk or better

Table 4. Database Repository (32-bit and 64-bit Platforms)

32-bit

64-bit

CPU

2-way 2.4 GHz CPUs—one of the following:

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2 GB for database repository

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1 GB for operating system

6 GB in total:

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4 GB for database repository

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2 GB for operating system

Storage

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80 GB, 10000 RPM hard disk or better

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.

Table 5. Agent Manager: Typical resource requirements

CPU Usage

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Varies greatly by cartridge/agent, the amount of data being collected, and the complexity of the technology being monitored

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Average is 4.8% CPU utilization

RAM

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Varies greatly by cartridge/agent, the complexity of the technology being monitored, and Agent Manager configuration

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Agent Manager base memory requirement is 256 MB. Additional memory may be required depending on the deployed agent types and instances.

Example agent package requirements

Foglight for Infrastructure — 12 MB on deployment and 4 MB for each agent instance.
Foglight for VMware — 2560 MB on deployment.

Storage

May use up to 1 GB of hard disk for installation, operation, and temporary data storage

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.

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Supported platforms for the Management Server

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Supported external databases

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Supported platforms for the Agent Manager

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Validated web browsers

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Validated web browsers

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Supported PDF report viewer

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.

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32-bit installations are only recommended for monitoring small or infrastructure-only environments. If you are planning to monitor large, APM, ERP, JavaTM, database, or virtualized environments, use a 64-bit platform.

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Installing 32-bit versions on a 64-bit operating system is not supported. A 64-bit installation binary should be installed on a 64-bit operating system.

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Foglight is a multi-threaded software application running in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It runs on, and takes advantage of, MultiThreading and HyperThreading (also known as Simultaneous MultiThreading) enabled environments.

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Unless you are running the installer in console mode, verify that you have an X Window SystemTM environment prior to installing Foglight on UNIX® platforms.

Table 6. Management Server platforms
Operating System	Version	OS Architecture	32-bit	64-bit
CentOS Linux®	5.x 6.x 7.x	x86-64		¹
Microsoft® Windows®	Server 2008	IA-32
	Server 2008	x86-64
	Server 2008 R2 Server 2012 Server 2012 R2 Server 2012 R2 Core	x86-64
	7 (Professional or above)	IA-32
	7 (Professional or above)	x86-64
	10	x86-64
	Server 2016	x86-64
Novell® SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server	10² 11 12 12 SP2	IA-32
Novell® SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server	10² 11 12 12 SP2	x86-64		a
Oracle® Linux®	5.x 6.x 7.x	IA-32
Oracle® Linux®	5.x 6.x 7.x	x86-64		a
Oracle Solaris®	10 (including Zones)³	x86-64
	10 (including Zones)³	SPARC
	11 (including Zones)c	x86-64
	11 (including Zones)c	SPARC
See Final platform support notice for future support.
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®	AP/Server 5.x 6.x 7.x	IA-32
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®	AP/Server 5.x 6.x 7.x	x86-64		a
Ubuntu® Linux®	12.04.x LTS 14.04.x LTS	x86-64

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.

Operating system patch requirements for the JRE

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:

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Management Server: Java 8

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Agent Manager: Java 8

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.