System requirements on cloud

Learn about supported platforms for an IBM® Netcool® Operations Insight® on OpenShift® deployment.

For detailed system requirements, search for version 1.6.7 of the Netcool Operations Insight product in the Software Product Compatibility Reports website, https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/softwareReqsForProduct.htmlexternal link.

Browser support

The current version of Netcool Operations Insight, 1.6.7, is compatible with several browsers. For more information, see the Web Browsers section on the Supported Software tab in the 1.6.7 report: SPCR for version 1.6.7

OpenShift support

The current version of Netcool Operations Insight, 1.6.7, is compatible with Red Hat® OpenShift 4.8 and 4.10. All of the documentation links point to version 4.10 of the Red Hat OpenShift documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.10external link
Note: When upgrading Red Hat OpenShift, do not to drain all the nodes. Instead, rely on the PodDisruptionBudgets (PDBs) to ensure that there is no service disruption.

Platform support

Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift is supported on x86 platforms.

A Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift deployment is also supported on the following platforms:

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
  • Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift (Microsoft ARO)
  • IBM Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS), which can be provisioned from the IBM Cloud® catalog: https://cloud.ibm.com/kubernetes/catalog/OpenShiftcluster

Sizing

For more information about sizing for a full cloud deployment of Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift, see Sizing for a Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift deployment.

Storage

For more information about storage options for a full cloud deployment of Netcool Operations Insight on OpenShift, see Storage.