Deploying agents and data collectors for IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management

After you deploy the ICAM klusterlet, you can install and configure agents and data collectors.

Before you begin

The ICAM klusterlet must be deployed. For more information, see Installing the ICAM klusterlet on the managed cluster with Helm.

About this task

Kubernetes data collector is auto-configured when you deploy the ICAM klusterlet. The other agents and data collectors still need manual configuration.

You must download the data collector configuration packs to configure agents and data collectors to communicate with the Cloud App Management server.

Procedure

To download the configuration packs in IBM® Multicloud Manager, complete the following steps:

  1. Login to the console.
  2. Select Event Management from the menu on the upper left of the window.
  3. Click Integrations on the IBM Cloud App Management Administration page.
  4. Click New Integration.
  5. Click Configure under ICAM Data collectors or ICAM Agents depending on which one you want to configure.
  6. Download the configuration package.

What to do next

For further instructions about deploying ICAM agents and data collectors, see the following topics:
  • Deploying ICAM Agents.
  • Deploying ICAM Data Collectors.
  • IBM Cloud App Management provides the Unified Agent, which is a framework of plug-ins to collect, process, aggregate, and write metrics to your Cloud App Management environment. It is based on Telegraf. By deploying the Unified Agent, you can receive OpenTracing workloads such as Jaeger and Zipkin, monitor NGINX and Redis workloads, IBM API Connect®, IBM App Connect Enterprise, and IBM MQ. To learn how to deploy the Unified Agent, see Deploying Unified Agent.