topic Re: AppD Comparability with Oracle Linux in Splunk AppDynamics

AppD Comparability with Oracle Linux

CommunityUser — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:15:15 GMT

The components of the appdynamics (Controller/Event Service/EUM) Can be Installed on Oracle linux? Will there be any compatability issue?

Re: AppD Comparability with Oracle Linux

Brian_Wheeldon — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:38:04 GMT

According to the documented Platform Requirements, the following Linux systems are tested and supported:

RHEL 6.x and 7.x
CentOS 6 and 7
Ubuntu 14 and 16
SUSE 12

Similar Linux variants are likely to work but are untested, so we recommend deploying the AppDynamics Platform to one of these.

Regards,

Re: AppD Comparability with Oracle Linux

CommunityUser — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:33:50 GMT

Thank you for your support.

Re: AppD Comparability with Oracle Linux

Brian_Wheeldon — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:56:27 GMT

Hi Manu,

Even though Oracle Linux is probably 99.9% compatible with the tested, supported Linux systems, I can't in good conscience recommend that you plan a Production deployment on this OS because:

- there is a burden of additional testing on your team to prove it works

- there is a risk that if you open a Support case related to any problem that could be related to the OS including compatibility, resources, or performance, they may ask you to reproduce the problem on a supported OS

If none of the supported Linux variants are available to your customer, my recommendation is to leverage the AppDynamics SaaS environment for the platform. This will provide:

- fully supported infrastructure managed by experts

- automatic maintainance and upgrades

- access to the latest features

- huge scalability on demand

For these reasons, my most successful customers are those that leverage AppDynamics SaaS.

Security concerns about performance data residing in SaaS is mitigated by SOC 2 compliance, role-based access control with support for LDAP and SAML, and data encryption at rest and in flight.

Regards,