Preparing for the App Visibility server installation

The following topics provide information about preparing your environment before you install the App Visibility server:

Preinstallation tasks for the App Visibility server components

Ensure that your computer or computers meet the system requirements and sizing considerations.
Ensure that you have the following privileges to perform the installation:
- (Windows) You are a user who belongs to the Administrator group.
- (Linux)
  - You are logged on as a root user.
  - New file umask is set to 022.
    To confirm or change umask settings, refer to the operating system documentation.
Download the installation files for App Visibility.
Complete or review the planning worksheets and the installation worksheets for App Visibility components.
Review known and corrected issues.

To prepare for the App Visibility proxy component

As the system administrator, configure your network to ensure that the App Visibility proxy can collect end-user browser data, and pass it on to the App Visibility collector and portal.

Before you install the App Visibility proxy, configure the following items:

Define a host name that resolves to the App Visibility proxy’s IP address, or to a Virtual IP on a load balancing server.
Create a certificate in which the Common Name matches the defined host name.
Configure the load balancing server to do the following actions:
- Negotiate HTTPS using the certificate created in Step 2.
- Redirect end-user HTTP/HTTPS requests from this host name to the host:port of the App Visibility proxy.

Where to go from here

Select an installation method for the App Visibility server:

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Preinstallation tasks for the App Visibility server components

To prepare for the App Visibility proxy component

Where to go from here

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