Linux

Following modules could be used for Linux monitoring:

• Bare Metal

Requirements

Following Linux applications are required on Linux servers for monitoring:

• Awk

• Curl

• Sar (Sysstat)

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Supported Distributions

VirtualMetric supports following distributions of Linux:

CentOS 5
CentOS 6
CentOS 7
CloudLinux 5
CloudLinux 6
CloudLinux 7
Debian 7
Debian 8
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
RedHat Enterprise Linux 6
RedHat Enterprise Linux 7
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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Sizing

Hardware requirements for VirtualMetric depends on total number of monitored object and intervals used. The following values are provided as reference for common usage of VirtualMetric (based on 20 seconds interval). Inventory collections are not included in this calculations.

Bare Metal

• Per Server

  a. 50 MB of memory (VirtualMetric Trigger) b. 4 Kbps of bandwidth (VirtualMetric API) c. 15 MB of disk space per month (VirtualMetric Database)