Extra requirements for IBM Power8 servers

Before you install Log Analysis on a IBM® Power8 based server, read and complete the following prerequisites.

The supported version is IBM Power8 Little Endian for Linux® (ppc64le). This is referred to as IBM Power8 in the this documentation.

Prerequisites

Before you install Log Analysis, ensure that you install at least one font package. You can check the /usr/share/fonts directory to see what packages are installed. One font package that you can use is called gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503-8.ael7b.noarch.

Supported features

If you install Log Analysis on IBM Power8 based hardware, you cannot use the internal IBM Tivoli® Monitoring Log File Agent that is installed with other versions of Log Analysis. It is not installed as part of the installation on IBM Power8 based servers.

However, you can still configure an external IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent to stream data from a remote source to your installation of Log Analysis. For more information, see Loading and streaming data.

All the other features of Log Analysis are available.