System requirements for the Cloud Probe

The Real User Cloud Probe agent connects to a running BMC Real End User Cloud Management system. The following table lists the system requirements necessary to install the Cloud Probe.

System requirements for the Cloud Probe installation

Operating system

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (64-bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 (64-bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit) (Basic Server or Minimal installations)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (64-bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (64-bit) (Basic Server or Minimal installations)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (64-bit) (Basic Server or Minimal installations)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • CentOS 5.8 (64 bits)
  • CentOS 5.9 (64 bits)
  • CentOS 6.1 (64 bits)
  • CentOS 6.2 (64 bits)
  • CentOS 6.3 (64 bits)
  • CentOS 6.4 (64 bits)
  • CentOS 6.5 (64 bits)
  • Ubuntu 12-04
  • Ubuntu 12-10
  • Ubuntu 13-04
  • Ubuntu 13-10
  • Windows 2008 Server (R2)
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 (R2)
  • Windows Win 7 (64-bit)
  • Windows Win 8 (64-bit)

Hardware

Each server where the Real User Cloud Probe is installed requires the following minimum hardware:

  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 CPUs

Network

The Real User Cloud Probe must connect to an instance of the Real User Collector using HTTPS. You can change the default port (443), if necessary.

Software

For Linux operating systems, you must have the following libraries installed:

Note

 Exact names of the libraries may vary depending on your operating system and version.

  • Zlib
  • Libicu
  • Libpcap
  • Openssl
  • Pcre
  • Libcurl

If you don't have these libraries installed, the installation will not run properly.

Before installing Real User Cloud Probe on Windows operating system, ensure you have WinPcap tool installed on the Cloud Probe machine. It is necessary for the correct functioning of the Cloud Probe on Windows OS.

Note

In the table below, see the approximate percentage of CPU and RAM capacity used by the Cloud Probe on the tenant computer (tested with 2 virtual CPUs and 4Gb RAM on Linux, and with 4 virtual CPUs and 16Gb RAM on Windows).

Cloud Probe CPU and RAM usage

Operating system

Expected volume of traffic

CPU consumption

RAM consumption

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

~1000 hits/sec

~5%

~10%

Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (R2)

~800 hits/sec

~5%

~10%

For system and network configuration requirements before installing the Cloud Probe, see Setting-up-the-Cloud-Probe-installation-environment.

 

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