Firewall Analyzer - System Requirements

    This section lists the minimum system requirements for installing and working with Firewall Analyzer. Please refer our website for recommended system requirements.

    Firewall Analyzer Version 12 onwards

    Log Rate 500 logs/sec More than 500 logs/sec
    Processor Intel Xeon Quad Core, 3.5 GHz Intel Xeon Quad Core, 3.5 GHz
    Ram Size

    8 GB

    		 16 GB
    Operating System

    Windows Server:

    • 2016
    • 2012 R2
    • 2012
    • 2008 R2
    • 2008
    • 2003
    • 2000 Professional SP4
    • Vista
    • Windows 7
     

    Linux: 

    • RedHat
    • Debian
    • SuSE
    • Fedora
    • Mandrake 

    Windows: 

    • 2012 R2 64 bit
    • 2008 R2

     

    Linux: 

    • CentOS 64 bit
    • Any Linux distribution with glibc >= 2.3 and X libraries installed
    Database

    MS SQL

    2000

    2005

    2008

    2012

    2014

     

    PostgreSQL bundled with OpManager

    MS SQL

    2008

    2012

    2014

     

    PostgreSQL bundled with OpManager

    Hard Disk required:

    Firewall Analyzer (For every 500 logs/sec & to maintain 1 day archive logs) 90 GB

    Version 8.5 or lesser

    Hardware Requirements

    For 32 Bit Installation

    The minimum hardware requirements for Firewall Analyzer to start running are listed 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 Firewall 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

    Firewall Analyzer is optimized for 1024x768 monitor resolution and above.

    * The following table recommends the disk space and RAM size requirements of the system where Firewall Analyzer is installed. The disk space and RAM size requirements depends on the number of devices sending log information to Firewall Analyzer, the number of firewall log records received per second or the firewall log data received per day by Firewall Analyzer.

    Recommended Minimum RAM Requirement

    Log Records Rate RAM Size
    Up to 100 Logs/sec 1 GB
    100 - 500 Logs/sec 2 GB
    500 - 1000 Logs/sec 4 GB
    Above 1000 Logs/sec 4 GB (64 Bit)
    Above 1000 Logs/sec 8 GB

    Hard Disk Space Requirement

    The split up is: Archive+Index+PostgreSQL=Total

    Log Records Rate For 1 Day For 1 Week For 1 Month
    50 Logs/sec 1+0.5+10.5=12 GB 5+3+30=38 GB 18+7+75=100 GB
    100 Logs/sec 2+1+15=18 GB 10+5+50=65 GB 35+15+100=150 GB
    300 Logs/sec 6+3+31=40 GB 30+15+105=150 GB 100+45+295=440 GB
    500 Logs/sec 10+5+75=90 GB 50+25+225=300 GB 170+70+480=720 GB
    1000 Logs/sec 20+10+150=180 GB 95+45+500=640 GB 325+125+950=1.4 TB

     

    Log Records Rate For 3 Months For 6 Months For 1 Year
    50 Logs/sec 60+25+125=210 GB 120+40+160=320 GB 240+90+300=630 GB
    100 Logs/sec 110+50+240=400 GB 220+80+320=720 GB 450+170+580=1.2 TB
    300 Logs/sec 280+120+600=1 TB 500+200+800=1.5 TB 900+350+1250=2.5 TB
    500 Logs/sec 470+230+1100=1.8 TB 900+400+2100=3.4 TB 1700+700+3600=6 TB
    1000 Logs/sec 920+480+2100=3.5 TB 1750+750+4200=6 TB 2850+1250+6400=10.5 TB

    CPU Requirements

    • Dedicated machine has to be allocated to process more than 200 logs per second
    • Dual core processors are needed to process more than 500 logs per second
    • Quadra core processors are needed to process more than 1000 logs second

    RAM Requirements

    • Number of firewalls handled by the Firewall Analyzer will increase the requirement of the above RAM values. So it is better to have RAM value higher than the suggested value in case of having more than 5 firewalls.

    Separate Installation

    • Firewall Analyzer server and PostgreSQL database can be installed in separate machines, in case of higher log rate with low-end CPU machines.

    Hard Disk Requirements for more months

    • The above Hard Disk space requirement projected is for one month. If you need to archive the logs for more number of months, multiply the above requirements with the number of months based on your requirement.

    Note: The Log Records Per Second is the total log records received per second by Firewall Analyzer from all the configured devices.

    PostgreSQL Performance Improvement Parameters (for Firewall Analyzer version 7.5 Build 7500 onwards)

    For better performance, we recommend replacing the existing PostgreSQL parameters mentioned in postgres_ext.txt available under <Firewall Analyzer Home>pgsqldata directory

    Parameters
    Comments
    port = 33336 This change requires Firewall Analyzer Appplication/Service restart
    shared_buffers = 128 MB Minimum requirement is 128 KB. This change requires Firewall Analyzer Appplication/Service restart
    work_mem = 12 MB Minimum requirement is 64 KB.
    maintenance_work_mem = 100 MB Minimum requirement is 1 MB.
    checkpoint_segments = 15 Logfile segments minimum 1 and 16 MB each
    checkpoint_timeout = 11 minutes Range: 30 seconds to 1 hour
    checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9 checkpoint target duration is 0.0 - 1.0
    seq_page_cost = 1.0 This parameter is measured in an arbitrary scale
    random_page_cost = 2.0 This parameter is measured in same scale as above
    effective_cache_size = 512MB  
    synchronous_commit=off  

    Supported Operating Systems 

    Firewall Analyzer has been tested to run on the following operating systems and versions:

    Windows®

    • Windows 7
    • Windows 8
    • Windows NT
    • Windows 2000
    • Windows XP
    • Windows Vista
    • Windows 2000 Server
    • Windows 2003 Server
    • Windows 2008 Server
    • Windows 2012 Server
    • Windows 2016 Server

    Linux

    • RedHat RHEL
    • Mandrake
    • Mandriva
    • SuSE
    • Fedora
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian

    Supported Web Browsers 

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

    • Internet Explorer 8 and later
    • Firefox 4 and later
    • Chrome 8 and later

    Supported Databases 

    Bundled with the product

    • PostgreSQL

    External Databases

    • MS SQL 2000
    • MS SQL 2005
    • MS SQL 2008
    • MS SQL 2012