Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk Add-on for IBM WebSphere Application Server

Dependencies

The Splunk Add-on for IBM WebSphere Application Server supports multiple data inputs, each capable of collecting different data from your WAS. For more information about which kind of data you can collect with which input, refer to the source types page.

If you want to collect data from the HPEL interface or by monitoring log files, you must install a Splunk Enterprise forwarder, Splunk Universal forwarder or single instance directly on the machine running your WebSphere application server, so it can access the logs locally.

If you are using an Universal Forwarder, You must be using Python version 3.7 or 3.9 to forward/collect HPEL logs.

If you want to collect JMX data, install the Splunk Add-on for Java Management Extensions (JMX) on your data collection node.

Note: To collect JMX data from an IBM WebSphere application server, you need to install the IBM JDK or JRE, which you can download here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/eclipse/. Put the JDK or JRE bin directory in the system path to make sure that the JMX data collection uses this IBM version of the Java runtime.

Sizing guidelines

The Splunk Add-on for IBM WebSphere Application Server has no specific sizing guidelines for JMX or file monitoring inputs. For HPEL interface inputs, the add-on can concurrently collect metrics from twenty WebSphere profiles without performance implications.

Splunk platform requirements

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

• For Splunk Enterprise system requirements: see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
• If you are using Splunk Universal Forwarder to forward data: see System Requirements in the Splunk Universal Forwarder "Installation Manual"..
• If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.