Deploying the Analytics subsystem

You can add analytics data collection by deploying the IBM® API Connect Analytics OVA file on a VMware virtual server.

Before you begin

Before you deploy:

About this task

You must deploy the API Connect OVA template to create each Analytics virtual server that you want in your cloud.

Procedure

Complete the following steps in order:

  1. Specify configuration settings for the Analytics subsystem and create an ISO. See Configuring the Analytics subsystem
  2. Deploy the subsystem OVA into an appliance VM. See Deploying the Analytics subsystem OVA file.
  3. Verify the deployment. See Verifying deployment of the Analytics subsystem

Results

An analytics installation starts the following Kubernetes pods:
  • Full installation in Prod deployment-profile:
    Table 1. Kubernetes pods in a full Analytics installation
    Number Pod
    2 client
    2 ingestion
    2 mtls
    1 operator
    equal to the number of nodes analytics-storage-basic

    Note that for all pod types except analytics-storage-basic, there is only one of each pod when installed with dev deployment-profile. For analytics-storage-basic, the number of pods always matches the number of nodes in the subsystem, regardless of installation mode.

  • Message queue deployment in Prod mode: All of the pods shown in Table Table 1, plus:
    Table 2. Additional pods used for Message Queue deployments
    Number Pod
    equal to the number of nodes mq-kafka
    equal to the number of nodes mq-zookeeper

    Note that the number of pods for mq-kafka and mq-zookeeper always match the number of nodes in the subsystem, regardless of installation mode.

  • Ingestion-only installation in Prod deployment-profile:
    Table 3. Kubernetes pods in an ingestion-only Analytics installation
    Number Pods
    2 ingestion
    2 mtls

    Note that in Dev deployment-profile there is only one of each pod.

What to do next

Identify the DataPower® appliances to be used as gateway servers in the API Connect cloud and obtain the IP addresses.

Define your API Connect configuration by using the API Connect cloud console. For more information, see Defining the cloud.