System Requirements


 

This section lists the minimum system requirements for installing and working with EventLog Analyzer.

Hardware Requirements

For 32 Bit Installation

 

The minimum hardware requirements for EventLog Analyzer to start running are listed below.

For 64 Bit Installation

 

The minimum hardware requirements for EventLog Analyzer to start running are listed below.

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 3 GB/day 1 GB 300 GB
500/sec or 14 GB/day 2 GB 1440 GB
1000/sec or 28 GB/day 4 GB 2880 GB

MySql Performance Improvement Parameters

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

1 GB

Default configuration as given in startDB.bat/sh

2 GB

" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1200M "

3 GB

" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1500M "

4 GB

" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1500M "

Operating System Requirements

EventLog Analyzer can be installed and run on the following operating systems (both 32 Bit and 64 Bit architecture) and versions:

  1. Windows™ 7, 2000, XP, Vista, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, 2008 Server & 2008 Server R2
  2. Linux - RedHat 8.0/9.0, Mandrake/Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS
  3. Ability to run in VMware environment

Note: If EventLog Analyzer is installed in SuSE Linux, then ensure that in the mysql-ds.xml file, present under <EventLog Analyzer Home>/server/default/deploy you replace localhost mentioned in the following line : <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:33335/eventlog</connection-url> with the corresponding IP Address or DNS resolvable name of the current system where EventLog Analyzer is installed.

Supported Platforms & Devices

EventLog Analyzer can collect and report on event logs from the following operating systems and devices:

  1. Windows™ 7/ Vista/ XP/ 2000/ NT and Windows Server 2000/ 2003/ 2008/
  2. 2008 R2
  3. Linux - RedHat 8.0/9.0, Debian
  4. UNIX - Solaris, HP-UX
  5. IBM AS/400 - Variants V5R1, V5R2, V5R3, V5R4, V5R5 and V6R1
  6. IBM AIX
  7. Cisco Switches and Routers
  8. VMWare - Syslog of versions
  9. DHCP - Windows and Linux
  10. SNARE for Windows

The logs of the following applications can be processed:

 

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 icon Windows hosts.

Supported Web Browsers

EventLog Analyzer has been tested to support the following browsers and versions:

  1. Internet Explorer 5.5 and later
  2. Firefox 1.0 and later
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