Cloud System Requirements

On-Premises Cloud

System Requirements for Endpoint Central Cloud

The system requirements for using Endpoint Central Cloud include the following:

  • Hardware requirements for distribution servers
  • Hardware requirements for Endpoint Central agents
  • Software requirements
  • Supported browsers

Minimum hardware requirements for distribution servers

Number of computers managed using the distribution server Processor information RAM size Hard disk space
1 to 500 Physical Machine: Intel Core i3 (2 core/4 thread) 2.0 GHz 3MB cache
Virtual Machine: 4 virtual processors 2.0 GHz 3 MB cache		 4GB 6GB*
501 to 1,000 Physical Machine: Intel Core i3 (2 core/4 thread) 2.9 GHz 3 MB cache
Virtual Machine: 4 virtual processors 2.9 GHz 3 MB cache		 4GB 12GB*
1,001 to 3,000 Physical Machine: Intel Core i5 (4 core/8 thread) 2.3GHz
Virtual Machine: 8 virtual processors 2.3 GHz		 8GB 16GB*
3,001 to 5,000 Physical Machine: Intel Core i7 (6 core/12 thread) 3.2 GHz
Virtual Machine: 12 virtual processors 3.2 GHz		 8GB 20GB*

*This amount may increase depending on the number of software applications and patches that are deployed from each server.

Minimum hardware requirements for Endpoint Central agents

Hardware Requirement
Processors Intel Pentium
Processor Speed 1.0GHz
RAM Size 512MB
Hard Disk Space 3GB*

*This amount may increase depending on the number of software applications and patches that are deployed from each server.

Ports

Ports used by Endpoint Central Cloud are 443 for server agent communication and 8384 for communication between (remote) agent and distribution server. For more details on domains required for agent communication and whitelisted IPs, refer this document.

Software Requirements

The supported operating systems (OSs) for distribution servers and Endpoint Central agents include the following:

Distribution servers

You can install distribution servers on any of the following Windows operating system versions:

  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server 2022*
  • Windows Server 2019*
  • Windows Server 2016*
  • Windows Server 2012 R2*
  • Windows Server 2012*
  • Windows Server 2008 R2*

*Recommended for managing 5,000 or more endpoints

Endpoint Central Agents

You can use Endpoint Central to manage the computers running on the following operating systems:

Windows OS Windows Server OS Mac OS Linux OS*
Windows 11 Windows Server 2022 14 Sonoma Ubuntu 10.04 and later versions
Windows 10 Windows Server 2019 13 Ventura Debian 7 and later versions
Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2016 12 Monterey Red Hat Enterprise
Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 R2 11 Big Sur Linux 6 and later versions
Windows 7 Windows Server 2012 10.15 Catalina CentOS 5 and later versions
- Windows Server 2008 R2 10.14 Mojave Fedora 19 and later versions
- - 10.13 High Sierra Mandriva 2010 and later versions
- - - Linux Mint 13 and later versions
- - - OpenSuSE 11 and later
- - - SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 and later versions
- - - Pardus 17 and 19 *We support kernel versions above 2.6.33

*Represents conditional support

For managing mobile devices

  • Android: Android devices running on version 4.0 or above
  • iOS (including iPhones, iPads, and iPods): iOS devices running on version 4.0 or above
  • Windows smartphones: Devices running on version Windows Phone 8.1 or above
  • Windows laptops (including Surface Hubs and Surface Pros): Devices running on Windows 10
  • Chrome OS: Devices running on version 57.0 or later
  • tvOS: Devices running on version 7.0 or above
  • macOS: Devices running on version 10.13 or later

Note: A TLS version of 1.2 and above is required for the legacy devices to be managed using Endpoint Central Cloud.

Supported browsers

Any of the following browsers can access the Endpoint Central Cloud console:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and later versions
  • Mozilla Firefox 44 and later versions
  • Google Chrome 47 and later versions

Note: The screen resolution should be 1280 x 1024 pixels or higher.

Currently, all Linux Agents (including the ones under distribution server) only support direct download of patches from the vendor.

For more details on domains required for agent communication in Endpoint Central cloud, refer this document.

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