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E.3. Installation Requirements

The Service Manager is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and a variety of Unix and Linux operating systems. In most cases, the standard operating system and packages are supported without further libraries and modules. All the required components are installed automatically.

  • Mac OS X Notes

    • The Mac OS X Service Manager is only supported on Intel architecture. However, the Mac OS X agent is supported for both Intel and the PowerPC.

    • Installation requires approximately 450MB of disk space for MySQL Enterprise Service Manager

  • Windows Notes

    • Installation requires approximately 260MB of disk space for MySQL Enterprise Service Manager

  • Unix/Linux Notes

    • Installation requires approximately 450MB of disk space for MySQL Enterprise Service Manager

    • On FreeBSD, you must have bind8 installed.

Note

Disk-space usage requirements are approximate for the base application. During usage, the service manager records detailed information about your MySQL servers and environment, and disk space usage will increase with time to record this historical data. You can control how long information is stored once the service manager has been installed.

The minimum recommended requirements for the service manager are at least a 2GHz CPU, with two or more CPU cores, and at least 2GB of RAM. If you are monitoring a large number of services, then there will be an increased load on the server manager. Running the service manager on a machine that is already running other tasks is only recommended if you are monitoring a small number of agents. For monitoring five or more agents simultaneously, you should dedicate a machine to the process. For more information, see Section E.5, “Choosing Suitable MySQL Enterprise Service Manager Hardware Configurations”.

The Monitor Agent is available for a wide range of operating systems. For an up-to-date list please see the http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/. The agent can be used to monitor any MySQL server from version 4.0.x through 6.0.x.