Software requirements
To successfully install Z ChatOps, you must meet the software requirements considering operating system, runtime, database, chat platform, and data source.
Software prerequisites
- Operating system:
- Linux® on System x
- Linux on System z®
- Runtime: the runtime requirements vary depending on which kind of installation method you
choose, Container or native installation.
- Container installation:
- Docker-ce 19.0.5 or later
- Podman 3.3.1 or later
- Native installation:
- Node.js 16.13.2 or later
- Container installation:
- Chat platform:
- Slack
- Mattermost 6.4.1 or later
- Microsoft Teams
- Data source:
- IBM® Service Management Unite 1.1.9.0 or laterImportant: Z ChatOps retrieves IBM Z® automation and monitoring data via IBM Service Management Unite (SMU). You must install SMU and configure the integration before you can analyze and operate on IBM Z automation and monitor resource through Z ChatOps. See Configuring SMU data provider for Z ChatOps for specific steps. To know more about Service Management Unite (SMU), visit IBM Service Management Unite 1.1.9 on IBM Documentation.
- Credentials for accessing automation domains must be configured in SMU if you want to query or manage automation resource in Z ChatOps.
- IBM Z NetView® RESTful API server must be configured in SMU if you want to query or manage NetView resource in Z ChatOps. You must also log in SMU web console with your configured SMU functional user, for example, eezdmn. Click to input and save your user ID and password to access your NetView RESTful API server.
- Dynamic Workload Console 9.5 or laterImportant: Z ChatOps retrieves IBM Z workload scheduling data via Dynamic Workload Console. You must install Dynamic Workload Console and configure the integration before you can analyze and operate on IBM Z workload scheduling related resource through Z ChatOps. See Configuring SMU data provider for Z ChatOps for specific steps. To know more about Dynamic Workload Console, visit IBM Z Workload Scheduler on IBM Documentation.
- IBM® Service Management Unite 1.1.9.0 or later