ASM Prerequisites¶
Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation
Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation
Alation Services Manager (ASM) requires a server to run on. This section describes the required infrastructure in terms of Linux OS, hardware, and networking.
For ACS customers, the ASM machine is typically an EC2 instance. For on-prem and self-managed customers the ASM machine should have a similar specification.
Infrastructure Requirements¶
ASM has similar infrastructure requirements to the Alation Agent. To create the environment to host ASM please refer to the Agent System Requirements for Operating System (latest) and Hardware details in the Alation Agent documentation.
Network Requirements¶
The following network inbound/outbound and DNS requirements are needed:
Outbound¶
API access to your Alation instance (HTTPS)
Access to your Alation Analytics database
For Cloud customers: Access to Alation Analytics on Snowflake
For On-prem customers: Access to Alation Analytics on Postgres
Inbound¶
Internal only http access on port 80 (no public access) is needed
DNS¶
A DNS entry is needed to allow internal routing to this system