Unix and Linux integration requirements in ITSI for collectd

These are the requirements and compatible software for *nix integrations for (ITSI) entity integrations for collectd. For information about data you can collect with this integration, see *nix data you can collect with ITSI.

If you want to collect data from a system running SELinux, see Collect data in ITSI with SELinux.

*nix integration operating system support

*nix integrations support only 64-bit operating systems.

You can collect metrics and log data from the following operating systems and versions:

Operating system	Version
Red Had Enterprise Linux	6, 7, 8
CentOS	6, 7, 8
Debian	7, 8, 9, 10
Ubuntu	14, 16, 18, 20
Fedora	25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
Solaris	10, 11 (x86_64 only)
SUSE Enterprise	15
openSUSE	15

collectd support for *nix hosts

ITSI uses collectd to collect metrics data from *nix hosts. Collectd is an open source daemon that collects system and application performance metrics. For information about how ITSI uses collectd for each operating system, see collectd package sources, install commands, and locations for ITSI entity integrations.

ITSI entity integrations are compatible with these versions of collectd:

• 5.7.x
• 5.8.x
• 5.9.x
• 5.10.x
• 5.11.x

Required *nix dependencies

You need these dependencies on each *nix host you want to collect data from:

Host type	Dependency
Every host	wget
Debian Ubuntu	apt-get
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS Fedora	yum
SUSE openSUSE	zypper

Docker (no orchestration) data collection requirements

You can monitor Docker containers on a Linux system you didn't deploy with an orchestration tool like Kubernetes or OpenShift. You can't monitor Docker containers on a Unix system.

These are the Docker requirements:

• Docker version 1.18 or later
• Docker API version 1.20 or later
• libyajl2