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Requirements for the monitoring agent
Before installing this monitoring agent, review its specific requirements.
In addition to the requirements described in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide, the Monitoring Agent for IBM i OS requires the environment described in Table 1.
Operating system IBM i OS Operating system versions
- IBM i 5.4
- IBM i 6.1
- IBM i 7.1
Disk space
- 100 MB disk space for the monitoring agent
- Historical data space varies, depending on the tables collected. Refer to general installation guidelines for disk space requirements in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide and "Disk capacity planning for historical data" in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring IBM i OS Agent Reference.
Other requirements
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring OS agents require that the hub monitoring server and portal server be at the same version or at a later version relative to the OS agent version.
- TCP/IP Communication Utilities
- IBM i Option 12, Host Servers, and Option 30, QShell must be installed
Review the most current information about the operating systems that are supported. When you get to that site, click on the relevant link in the Operating system reports section.
Note that the IOA Cache Battery function requires specific IBM i PTFs to be installed. Table 2 lists the PTFs required for each release.
IBM i release PTFs V5R4M0 5722SS1 SI41535, 5722999 MF50979 V5R4M5 5722SS1 SI41535, 5722999 MF51609 V6R1M0 5761SS1 SI41679, 5761999 MF51621 V6R1M1 5761SS1 SI41679, 5761999 MF51622 V7R1M0 5770SS1 SI41680, 5770999 MF51664
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