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For 32 Bit Installation
The minimum hardware requirements for installing and working with
EventLog Analyzer are given below.
- 1 GHz, 32-bit (x86) Pentium Dual Core processor or equivalent
- 2 GB RAM*
- 5 GB Hard disk space for the product
For 64 Bit Installation
The minimum hardware requirements for EventLog Analyzer to start running
are listed below.
- 2.80 GHz, 64-bit (x64) Xeon LV processor or equivalent
- 2 GB RAM*
- 5 GB Hard disk space for the product
EventLog Analyzer is optimized for 1024x768 monitor resolution and above.
* The following table recommends the disk space and RAM
size requirements of the system where EventLog Analyzer is
installed. The disk space and RAM size requirements depends
on the number of host sending log information to EventLog
Analyzer, the number of host log records received per
second or the host log data received per day by EventLog
Analyzer. The calculation is worked out for 100 hosts and an average log record size of 350 bytes.
| Log Records Rate or
Volume |
RAM Size |
Hard Disk Space Requirement
Per Month to Archive Logs |
| 100/sec or 4 GB/day |
2 GB |
85 GB |
| 500/sec or 20 GB/day |
4 GB |
400 GB |
| 1000/sec or 40 GB/day |
8 GB |
800 GB |
For better performance, you can replace the existing MySQL parameters mentioned in startDB.bat/sh, available under <Eventlog Analyzer Home>\bin directory, with the following MySQL parameter changes corresponding to the EventLog Analyzer servers RAM Size.
Hardware RAM Size |
MySQL Parameter Changes |
| 2 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1200M " |
| 3 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1500M " |
| 4 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1500M " |
EventLog Analyzer can be installed and run on the following
operating systems and versions:
- Windows™ 8, Windows™ 7, Vista, 2000, XP, & NT and Windows™ Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012
- Linux - RedHat 8.0/9.0, Mandrake/Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS
- Ability to run in VMware environment
Universal Log Parsing and Indexing (ULPI)
EventLog Analyzer supports Universal Log Parsing and Indexing technology which allows it to collect, analyze, search, archive and generate reports from any machine-generated logs, even from data sources not listed below, as long as the received log data is in non-encrypted, human-readable format.
Here is a partial list of devices, systems and applications that EventLog Analyzer supports:
System and Device Logs
- Windows™ 8, Windows™ 7, Vista, 2000, XP, & NT and Windows™ Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012
- Linux - RedHat, Debian
- UNIX - Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX
- IBM AS/400 - Variants V5R1, V5R2, V5R3, V5R4, V5R5 and V6R1
- Cisco Switches and Routers
- VMWare - Syslog of versions
- Amazon EC2 Instance
- SNARE for Windows
- and other syslog supported devices
Application Logs
- IIS W3C Web Server
- IIS W3C FTP Server
- DHCP - Windows and Linux
- MS SQL Server
- Apache Web Server
- Print Server
- Oracle 10 G Release 2 (10.2.0.3) - Audit Logs
Note:
- For analyzing logs from Windows NT machine, WMI core should
have been installed in the Windows NT machine.
- Syslogs received from SNARE agents for Windows will be displayed as Windows hosts.
EventLog Analyzer has been tested to support the following
browsers and versions:
- Internet Explorer 8 and later
- Firefox 4 and later
- Chrome 8 and later
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