System Requirements This section contains information on the minimum system requirements for Foglight NMS. Before you can begin to download Foglight NMS, you must make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements. Topics in this section Things to Consider Before You Install Foglight NMS Host Server Hardware and Software System Requirements Device and Collection Agent System Requirements Foglight NMS Studio System Requirements SQL Server System Requirements Installing Foglight NMS on a Virtual Machine
Things to Consider Before You Install Foglight NMS When you apply Smart Policy assignments to install Foglight NMS with the default monitor settings, this basic type of installation will perform well on a Dual-Core system with 4 GB of RAM. If you adjust the policies to monitor larger networks or use the Network Traffic Flow module, you need to consider which hardware and system configuration you plan to use. As shown in the tables in the following sections, the minimum system requirements are dependent upon the number of devices that you are monitoring. You must consider the following scalability issues before installing Foglight NMS: Number of monitored devices: If you monitor 500 or more devices, you may need to do some performance tuning on your system. Amount of data collected for each device: If you increase the number of monitors on a device, a spike in the amount of data collected will occur. Changing the default time intervals: If you set a time interval to collect data every five minutes, using a high performance server is recommended to complete the data collection in an efficient and timely manner. Number of Studio connections: A large number of Studio connections simultaneously accessing the system will impact performance. To optimize performance when collecting traffic analysis data, it is recommended that you use a dedicated high performance server when the following conditions exist: You configure the application to collect Traffic Flow data from multiple routers or switches. There exists a large amount of traffic conversations. You set up the application to monitor more than 500 devices.
Host Server Hardware and Software System Requirements See the following table for the minimum hardware and software system requirements for your host server. When you download a trial version of Foglight NMS, the application comes with an optimized version of SQL CE installed. This optimized version of SQL CE works when you are trying out Foglight NMS or loading device count installations. However; in your production environment, you must install SQL server Standard or Enterprise Edition. NOTE: The following minimum requirements apply when you install the default configuration. Significantly increasing the device monitoring intervals and network traffic collection may cause an additional load on the server, which may require you to increase your RAM and upgrade your CPU power. Host Server System Requirements Operating System For 32-bit or 64-bit: Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 or later Microsoft Windows 2008 Server CPU Memory Hard Drive Space.Net Framework Firewall Exceptions - Allowed Programs Dual Core, 3.0 GHz or higher (Recommended) 4 GB RAM NOTE: You will need to increase the amount of memory based on the high-volume data that you are collecting, such as netflow, syslog, and windows event logs. 50 GB NOTE: You will need a minimum of 3 GB of free space to install the SNMP MIB Library. NOTE: You will need to increase your hard drive space based on the retention settings. 2.0 or higher Version 3.5..NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Recommended) The following are automatically configured during installation:
Host Server System Requirements ptserverservice ptserverconfig ptagentservice ptagentconfig ptstudio Ports The following are the firewall rules for inbound connections: 5053 (TCP) = (128 AES Encrypted Host Server port) 5054 (TCP) = Agent deployment CAB file downloads 5055 (TCP) = (Encrypted Remote Control Tunnel port) 61 (UDP) SNMP Trap collector 69 (UDP) - TFTP Server 514 (UDP) - Syslog collector 2055 (UDP) NetFlow collector 6343 (UDP) sflow collector 9555 (UDP) - NetFlow Alternative port #2 collector 9995 (UDP) NetFlow Alternative port #3 collector
Device and Collection Agent System Requirements See the following table for the minimum hardware and software system requirements for your host server in order to deploy device and collection agents on it. NOTE: When you install a collection agent on Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Vista, the limited TCP connections available with these operating systems may impact the monitoring performance. It is recommended that you use Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 when possible. System Requirements for Device and Collection Agents Operating System For 32-bit or 64-bit: Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later Windows Server 2008 Windows XP SP2 or later Windows Vista SP1 (all versions) Microsoft Windows 7 Ubuntu Server 8 Fedora release 10 Debian 4.0 OpenSuse 11.0 Apple Mac OS X NOTE: Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 is required if you are collecting Syslog, NetFlow, ad SNMP Traps data..net Framework Ports 2.0 or higher Version 3.5..NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Recommended) The following are the firewall rules for Outbound connections: 5053 (TCP) = (128 AES Encrypted Host Server port) 5054 (TCP) = Agent deployment CAB file downloads
System Requirements for Device and Collection Agents 5055 (TCP) = (Encrypted Remote Control Tunnel port)
Foglight NMS Studio System Requirements You can use the following operating systems and browsers to run the web version of the Foglight NMS Studio. Microsoft Windows (all versions) Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Google Chrome
SQL Server System Requirements See the following table for the minimum SQL Server system requirements. When you download a trial version of Foglight NMS, the application comes with an optimized version of SQL CE installed. This optimized version of SQL CE works when you are trying out Foglight NMS or loading device count installations. However; in your production environment, you must install SQL server Standard or Enterprise Edition. System Requirements for SQL Server Database For 32-bit or 64-bit: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Editions Windows Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise CPU Memory Dual Core, 3.0 GHz or higher (Recommended) 4 GB RAM NOTE: You will need to increase the amount of memory based on the high-volume data that you are collecting, such as Net- Flow, syslog, and windows event logs. Hard Drive Space Additional Hardware Requirements for SQL Server If you choose to run SQL Server on a separate machine from your Foglight NMS server, the following requirements apply: You must install SQL server on a physical machine. You must have a minimum of 32 GB of RAM. You must use SQL authentication instead of windows authentication.
If your machine is collecting traffic and log data, the following minimum system requirements apply: Additional Requirements Operating System Perspective Agent Service Perspective Service Additional RAM per Netflow Device(s) Additional RAM per Netflow Device(s) 2 GB 1 GB 1 GB NoOfFlowDevices * 300MB 1 GB
Installing Foglight NMS on a Virtual Machine Because of intense I/O requirements and a high threshold of additional hardware specifications, installing Foglight NMS on a virtual machine in a production environment is not recommend. You should install Foglight NMS in a testing environment to ensure that you and your colleagues and sites have the best user experience possible. The following items are the minimum hardware and software system requirements when installing Foglight NMS on a virtual machine (VM). Operating System: For 64-bit, both Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 are recommended; however, you can use Windows 7. CPU: Two physical cores dedicated to perspective VM (no hyper-threading core). Memory: 4 GB RAM. NOTE: If you install SQL server, you must include an additional 4 GB RAM. You must provide a minimum of 100Mbs of bandwidth dedicated. You must make sure that your VM is using a physical partition rather than a virtual harddisk.