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JP1 Version 13 JP1/Base User's Guide


L.1 System configuration for using JP1/Base linked with the auto-scaling functionality

This subsection describes the system configuration needed to use JP1/Base linked with the auto-scaling functionality.

The system consists of hosts to be monitored (agent hosts) and a host that monitors the agents (manager host).

Figure L‒1: System configuration for using JP1/Base linked with the auto-scaling functionality

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Organization of this subsection

(1) Prerequisite cloud services

Amazon EC2 service

(2) Supported OSs

Windows
  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2022

Linux
  • Linux 7

  • Linux 8

  • Linux 9

(3) Prerequisite programs

The programs to be installed on the manager host and the agent hosts are as follows:

Manager host
  • JP1/Base 13-00 or later#

  • JP1/Integrated Management - Manager 13-00 or later

  • AWS CLI (prerequisite program for AWS CLI)

#

The scripts bundled with JP1/Base have been tested with AWS CLI version 2.0.0 (released on 2020-02-10). You can use them within the range of versions where there is no change in the interface of the AWS CLI commands (aws ec2 describe-instance-status, aws ec2 describe-instances) used in the scripts bundled with JP1/Base.

If you want to use Amazon EC2 API Tools for compatibility, install the following program instead of the above program:

  • JP1/Base 11-00 or later

  • JP1/Integrated Management - Manager 11-00 or later

  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.7 or later

  • Amazon EC2 API Tools (prerequisite program for Amazon EC2 API Tools)

If you plan to use JP1/PFM for monitoring, install the following program:

  • JP1/Performance Management - Manager 11-00 or later

Agent hosts
  • JP1/Base 11-00 or later

If you plan to use JP1/PFM for monitoring, install the following programs:

  • JP1/Performance Management - Agent Option for Platform 11-00 or later

  • JP1/Performance Management - Base 11-00 or later

(4) Environment conditions for hosts

The environment conditions for the manager host and the agent hosts are as follows:

Manager host

There are no special restrictions. The manager host can be run in either a physical machine environment or a virtual machine environment (including on a virtual machine in a cloud environment).

Agent hosts

Agent hosts must be run in a virtual machine environment (Amazon EC2 instance) provided by the Amazon EC2 service.