Actian Monitor > Installing Actian Monitor > Prerequisites
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Prerequisites
The following software components are required before installing Actian Monitor:
• A supported OCI-compliant container engine:
• Linux Podman and Docker
• Windows Podman and Docker with WSL2 containers
• Windows WSL Podman and Docker
Note:  Hyper-V backed for Podman is not supported and should not be used.
• Docker or Linux Podman should be installed on a system that is not an Ingres production system
• SSH access to target DBMS nodes.
Note:  Password-less SSH access is preferred.
• An Actian DBMS must already be installed
• Actian Monitor Bash shell (Linux) or Powershell (Windows)
• The sshpass and ssh-keyscan utilities are available on the installer machine
• Powershell SSH module (Windows Only - use ‘Install-Module -NActian Monitore Posh-SSH -Force’ to install)
• To install on Windows Server 2022, use the Linux Actian Monitor installer in WSL2
• If the monitored database is Vector, the default log level must be set to info or lower ($II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/vwlog.conf)
• The JDBC user will be used for all JDBC connections. The user requires access to and must have TRACE and IMA_SEC_READ privileges on the IMADB database.
• If both Podman and Docker are installed on the same machine, the installer will choose Podman (default). To choose Docker, in this situation, use the installer's container-engine command line option.
• Actian Monitor has no root requirements, and we advise not installing as root.
• The Actian Monitor containers will require approximately 2G of disk space. You must have at least this much available for container storage.
• -The Actian Monitor containers need to write logs and data files into the mapped Compose directories. If the Actian Monitor is installed as root, you will need to change permissions to allow the container to write to these directories.
• A user account on the host that will run Actian Monitor. The account will own the Actian Monitor configuration files and runtime files. The account must be enabled to control the Actian Monitor Docker container.
Notes:
• The Actian Monitor owning user ID must be a member of the host OS ‘docker’ group.
• Do not use the root account to install Actian Monitor. This is not supported and can be a security risk.
For Docker-specific details, refer to the Docker documentation at https://docs.docker.com/
Last modified date: 01/29/2026