Installation Guide
The following pages will guide you through the download, installation and initial setup of the RHQ management platform.
- Go through the Prerequisites in order to ensure that you:
- are installing on a supported operating system.
- have a supported Java environment.
- setup a supported database.
- Download the RHQ distribution.
- Install and configure a server.
- Install and configure an agent.
- Get started by importing the resources initially auto-discovered.
- Best practices
- If you plan on having a large amount of RHQ Agents or you wish to make RHQ more fault tolerant, read about RHQ's High Availability functionality.
- If you need to lock down the communications between your servers and agents, read Securing Communications.
- Read the RHQ Best Practices for more hints and tips.