System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 R2 Edition
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2008 x64 R2 Edition

UNIX

• RedHat Enterprise Linux ES/AS 5 or 6 on x86 platforms
• CentOS 5 or 6 on x86 platforms

Hardware Requirements

For smaller environments (about 100 devices), you can install and operate the entire application from a single server. The minimum hardware reqrements for Traverse are:

• 2GHz+ CPU on x86 platform
• 4GB RAM
• 60GB disk space (SCSI or fast IDE)

Recommended configuration:

• 2 x 3GHz+ Intel Xeon CPU (multi-core ok)
• 8GB RAM
• 80GB disk space in RAID-5 configuration (SAS/SATA or SSD)

Some desktop-class processors like the Celeron (which has minimal onboard cache) are not suitable for use with Traverse. We strongly recommend Pentium 4/M, Xeon, or equivalent processors.

UNIX Software Requirements

You must install the following software on Linux and Solaris platforms:

• Perl version 5.8 and above programming language/interpreter (available from http://www.perl.com).
• Install the Legacy Support Package on computers with the RedHat/CentOS operating system. To install the Legacy Support package, log in to the computer as root and execute following command on the command line

  yum install "Legacy Software Support"

  yum install -y libstdc++.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 popt.i686 zlib.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 glib2.i686

Windows Software Requirements

Some anti-virus/malware tools are known to cause database corruption when they attemp to intercept read/write requests. In order to avoid such issues, it is strongly recommended that McAfee, Norton and other anti-virus tools are configured to exclude <TRAVERSE_HOME>\database directory from all manual/on-access scans.

Disk Space Requirements

Kaseya recommends 36GB of free space in a RAID 5 configuration be available for the installation of Traverse. A minimum of 16GB of free space should be available if the recommended disk requirements cannot be met. See Disk Space Requirements for DGE Aggregation for further requirements.

The BVE Web Application and BVE ObjectStore components have a low impact on disk space. However, these components have a very high impact on CPU performance when processing and generating reports.

Additionally, make sure you plan for the space requirements of the following directories (created during the installation of Traverse) when deploying Traverse.

Note: References to <TRAVERSE_HOME> indicate the top-level directory into which you installed Traverse. By default, this is \Program Files (x86)\Traverse on Windows and /usr/local/traverse on UNIX.

Windows

• <TRAVERSE_HOME>\database\provisioning - Provisioning data. Plan for 1MB for every 1000 tests.
• <TRAVERSE_HOME>\database\mysql - DGE historical data. See Disk Space Requirements for DGE Aggregation for information about calculating disk space requirements for a DGE database.
•  <TRAVERSE_HOME>\logs - Plan for 5GB of disk space for log files.

UNIX

•  <TRAVERSE_HOME>/database/provisioning - Provisioning data. Plan for 1 MB for every 1000 tests.
•  <TRAVERSE_HOME>/database/mysql - DGE historical data. See Disk Space Requirements for DGE Aggregation for information about calculating disk space requirements for a DGE database.
•  <TRAVERSE_HOME>/logs - Plan for 5GB of disk space for log files.