Configuring IBM API Connect monitoring in Unified Agent

When you deploy the Unified Agent, you can select to install IBM APIC plug-in to monitor IBM API Connect. It can help to determine the health status of the APIC cluster in Kubernetes by retrieving data from Kubernetes API Server, and also gathers APIC Cloud Information from APIC REST APIs including cloud settings, registered services, and cloud events.

About this task

To deploy the Unified Agent with APIC monitoring, do the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Ensure that you complete steps 1-3 as instructed in Installing and configuring the Unified Agent to deploy the Unified Agent.
  2. Enter the IBM API Connect server hostname of IBM API Connect Cloud Manager, for example, ui.apic.server.com.
  3. Enter the user name of IBM API Connect server, the default is admin.
  4. Enter the password of IBM API Connect server.
  5. Enter the namespace in which IBM API Connect cluster is deployed. The default is apiconnect.
  6. Enter the absolute path of the IBM API Connect toolkit to register this plug-in, for example, /root/apicagent/toolkit/apic-slim.

Results

The IBM API Connect plug-in is successfully installed and configured in Unified Agent.