Installing your server

The Cloud APM server and supporting components provide the infrastructure for monitoring with the Cloud APM console. Install the Cloud APM server as the first step in setting up your IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management environment.
The Cloud APM server must be installed by a root user on a supported version of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.

After the Cloud APM server is installed, you cannot change the permissions of the Cloud APM files and directories. In addition, you cannot change the user or group owners of these files and directories.

For a list of supported operating systems, see the software product compatibility report for your offering:
If you downloaded the monitoring agent images, you can configure the images as part of the monitoring infrastructure installation process. If you intend to monitor with agents from your IBM Tivoli® Monitoring environment, you can also download the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management Hybrid Gateway image and configure the image as part of the installation process.

For information about installing in a high availability environment, see https://github.com/IBM/ibm-cloud-apm-samples/blob/master/APM_High_Availability_V4.8.pdf.

For more information about installing in a high availability environment, see the APM_High_Availability_V<version>.pdf document in the IBM-cloud-apm-samples github repository, where <version> is the latest version published, only the latest version is available in the github repository.