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System Requirements
 

System Requirements

Ensure that the minimum hardware and software requirements listed below are met before installing ADManager Plus.

Hardware requirements

Following are the hardware requirements for deploying ADManager Plus:

Hardware Minimum Recommended
Processor 1.6GHz or faster 2.13GHz or faster
RAM 1GB* (1.5GB if it is a virtual machine) 4GB* (8GB if it is a virtual machine)
Disk Space Hard disk space: 4GB* 10GB*

* Based on the number of scheduled reports and automations running in parallel, additional space might be needed. Know more.

Active Directory activities

The following section outlines the memory and RAM requirements for Active Directory reporting and management.

  • Active Directory management
  • Active Directory reporting

Active Directory management

Following are the memory and RAM requirements for performing Active Directory management tasks using ADManager Plus:

Number of objects created or modified per hour RAM required (MB) HDD required (GB) Bandwidth (Mbps)
1,000 256 4 10
5,000 512 8 10
10,000 1024 30 10
20,000 2048 50 50
50,000 8096 50 50
100,000 8096 50 50

1.1 Active Directory activities:

The following section outlines the memory and RAM requirements for Active Directory reporting and management.

  • Active Directory Reporting
  • Active Directory Management

1.1.1 Active Directory Reporting:

These specifications take into consideration all report generation activities, including reports generated on demand, through the scheduler, and also by automations, for performing management tasks.

Number of objects in the domain RAM required(MB) HDD required(GB) Bandwidth(MBPS)
5000 256 4 10
10000 512 8 10
25000 1024 30 10
50000 2048 50 50
100000 8096 100 50
1000000 16384 150 100

1.1.2 For Active Directory Management:

The specifications take into account all management actions performed - both manual and automated actions.

Number of objects created/modified per hour RAM required(MB) HDD required(GB) Bandwidth(MBPS)
1000 256 4 10
5000 512 8 10
10000 1024 30 10
20000 2048 50 50
50000 8096 50 50
100000 8096 50 50

Recommended browsers:

  • Internet Explorer 10 and above*
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox

*Supports IE8 and above

Note: Use the latest version of the browser for better security and the best possible experience.

Recommended screen resolution: 1366 x 768 pixels or higher.

Supported databases:

The following databases are supported

  • PostgreSQL (default database bundled with the product)
  • MS SQL

Note: If your ADManager Plus server has MySQL installed, we recommend migrating to PostgreSQL. Click here for database migration steps.

List of ports used by ADManager Plus »

Product Ports

Port Number Protocol Purpose
8080/8443 HTTP/HTTPS Necessary to connect to Tomcat web server
33306 TCP To connect to the product database.

System Ports

Allow outbound connections to ports on the source server (ADManager Plus Server) and inbound connections to ports on the target servers (Domain Controllers, etc.).

Port Number Protocol Source Destination Port Type Service Purpose
389/639 TCP and UDP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static LDAP To connect to Active Directory
135 TCP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static RPC Used to establish data exchange
445 TCP and UDP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static SMB To get access to shared file systems
88 TCP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static Kerberos For authentication when accessing a domain resource
139 TCP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static NetBIOS session Required for communicating within network
3268/3269 TCP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static Global Catalog Necessary for performing search operations in the Global Catalog
25 SMTP ADManager Plus Server SMTP Server Static SMTP To send emails
80 HTTP ADManager Plus Server Domain Controllers Static Exchange For connecting to Exchange Servers
80, 443 HTTP/HTTPS ADManager Plus Server Office 365/Google Workspace Server Static Office 365 and Google Workspace Required for communicating with Office 365 and Google Workspace platforms
49152- 65535 TCP ADManager Plus Server RPC randomly allocated high TCP ports Dynamic RPC Used to establish data exchange

Active Directory reporting

This section outlines the memory and RAM requirements for Active Directory reporting. These specifications consider all report generation activities, including reports generated on demand, through the scheduler, and by automations, for performing management tasks.

Number of objects in the domain RAM required (MB) HDD required (GB) Bandwidth (Mbps)
1,000 256 4 10
5,000 512 8 10
10,000 1024 30 10
20,000 2048 50 50
50,000 8096 50 50
100,000 8096 50 50

Software Requirements

Following are the software requirements for deploying ADManager Plus:

Supported operating systems

ADManager Plus can be installed in any one of the following Microsoft Windows operating system versions:

  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7

Recommended browsers

ManageEngine ADManager Plus requires one of the following browsers to be installed on the system.

  • Internet Explorer 10 and above*
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox

* Supports IE8 as well

Note:

  • Use the latest version of the browser for better security and the best possible experience.
  • The screen resolution should be 1366 x 768 pixels or higher.

Supported databases

The following databases are supported by ADManager Plus:

  • PostgreSQL (the default database bundled with the product)
  • MS SQL

Port requirements

Server ports

Port Number Protocol Purpose
8080/8443 HTTP/HTTPS Necessary to connect to the Tomcat web server
33306 TCP To connect to the product database

System ports

Allow outbound connections to ports on the source server (the ADManager Plus server) and inbound connections to ports on the target servers (i.e., domain controllers).

Port Number Protocol Source Destination Port Type Service Purpose
389/636 TCP and UDP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static LDAP To connect to Active Directory
135 TCP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static RPC To establish data exchange
445 TCP and UDP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static SMB To get access to shared file systems
88 TCP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static Kerberos For authentication when accessing a domain resource
139 TCP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static NetBIOS session Required for communicating within the network
3268/3269 TCP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static Global Catalog Necessary for performing search operations in the Global Catalog
25 SMTP ADManager Plus server SMTP server Static SMTP To send emails
80 HTTP ADManager Plus server Domain controllers Static Exchange For connecting to Exchange servers
80, 443 HTTP/HTTPS ADManager Plus server Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace servers Static Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Required for communicating with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace platforms
49152- 65535 TCP ADManager Plus server RPC randomly allocated high TCP ports Dynamic RPC Used to establish data exchange
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