Prerequisites

Before you integrate IBM Z® Resource Discovery with ServiceNow, you must install Docker or Podman.

For Docker users

Docker 23 or later and Docker Compose 2 or later must be installed and configured.

You can find suitable releases of both tools along with their prerequisites in the Z Operational Analytics common components package in the prereqs/ subdirectory.

For Podman users

  • Podman 4 or later must be installed and configured.
  • Either Aardvark or CNI must be installed and configured as the networking backend for Podman:
    • On Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8, install containernetworking-plugins to use CNI.
    • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Aardvark is installed with Podman.
  • A working DNS implementation must be available for the Podman networking backend:
    • If you use Aardvark, such a DNS implementation is provided out of the box.
    • If you use CNI, you must install the following additional components:
      • dnsmasq: available from your Linux distribution repository
      • dnsname: CNI plugin that is provided with the Z Operational Analytics common components package in the prereqs/ subdirectory