System requirements

Before installing PATROL for Scripting, verify that the target computer meets the following installation requirements:


Related topics

Planning

Supported BMC products

Resource

Requirements

PATROL Agent

  • For BMC Helix Operations Management:
    • PATROL Agent version: 20.08 and above
    • PATROL Installation Utility version: 20.02 and above
  • For TrueSight Operations Management:
    • PATROL Agent version: 11.3 and above
    • PATROL Installation Utility version: 11.3 and above

PATROL Installation Utility

10.x or later

TrueSight Operations Management

11.x

Language requirements

To support Linux Simplified Chinese platform, the monitoring system on which PATROL Agent is running and the remote device that is configured to execute scripts must run on same locale (zh_CN.gbk or zh_CN.utf8). Note that PATROL Classic Console does not support zh_CN.utf8 locale.

Supported operating systems for Windows PowerShell monitor type

Operating system

Supported versions

Microsoft Windows Server

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022, x86-64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019, x86-64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Core, x86-64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016, x86-64

.NET

3.5 and later (for Windows PowerShell monitor type configuration)

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 supports .NET version 4.7

Supported operating systems for OS command line and Linux-UNIX monitor types

Operating system

Supported versions

Comments

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Supports any of the following Java versions:

  • Oracle Java 8.x
  • OpenJDK 8.x
  • OpenJDK 11.x

Note: For the latest announcement on BMC’s Java Support policies for TrueSight monitoring solutions, see Java support for TrueSight monitoring solutions

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is available as a solution in the Infrastructure Management - PATROL Repository.

Debian

  • Debian 10.x (buster), x86-64
  • Debian 9.5.00 (stretch), x86-64
  • Debian 8.11.00 (jessie), x86-64


Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x, x86-64, PPC64LE
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, x86-64, s390x


SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15.x, Service Pack 2, x86-64, PPC64LE
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.x, Service Pack 5, x86-64, IBM® zSeries®
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x, x86-64, IBM® zSeries®


Oracle Enterprise Linux

  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 9.x, x86_64
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 8.x, x86-64
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.x, x86-64
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.x, x86-64

Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported with the following kernel packages:

  • Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 4 (kernel-uek-4.1.12-112.16.4.el7uek) for x86-64
  • Red Hat Compatible Kernel (kernel-3.10.0-862.el7) for x86-64

CentOS

  • CentOS 7.x, x86-64


Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, x86-64
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, x86-64
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, x86-64


IBM AIX

  • IBM® AIX® 7.x, 64-bit hardware, 64-bit kernel, 64-bit ABI


Oracle Solaris

  • Oracle Solaris 11 U4, x86-64, SPARC
  • Oracle Solaris 10, x86-64, 64-bit, SPARC


HP-UX

  • HP-UX 11i 3 (B11.31), Itanium 2


Microsoft Windows Server

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019, x86-64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Core, x86-64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016, x86-64

You can install the KM on these operating systems to monitor the Linux and UNIX monitor types remotely.


 

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