Prerequisites

The Redpeaks cockpit application needs one central cockpit application server and one or several collectors
You will find in this guide the mandatory prerequisites for a successful installation

Skills

Those responsible for installing the solution should have the following skills:

Basic linux administration for installing software and creating user accounts

SAP basis users & authorizations administration

Database users administration

Network administration to implement network routes

Redpeaks cockpit host

Hardware

The hardware requirements directly depends on the number of devices that you want to monitor.​

SAP systems	CPU	Application Memory	Disk
<10	8 Cores	16 GB	100 GB
<50	8 Cores	16 GB	200 GB
<100	8 Cores	32 GB	400 GB
>100	16 Cores	32 GB	1 TB
Partitioning
Application	Default folder	Recommended size
Cockpit	/opt/Pro.Monitor-Cockpit	30 GB
MySql database data	/opt/mysql-data	50 - 300 GB
Victoria Metrics data	/opt/victoriametrics-data	30 - 100 GB

Software

Supported OS:

Linux CentOS/SUSE/RedHat (7 or above) systemctl must be available for a smooth installation

Third party software:

Java OpenJDK > 20 (64 bits)

Victoria metrics

MySQL Server > 8.0

Redpeaks collector host

See Redpeaks collector prerequisites