AppD Comparability with Oracle Linux

[Manu.Jose]

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

[Brian.Wheeldon · Accepted solution]

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,

[Manu.Jose]

Thank you for your support.

[Brian.Wheeldon]

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,