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Afaria Server Dimensioning

  Recommended Setup for 50-300 concurrent Client sessions

Processor speed 2.8 GHz

Processor type Intel-compatibleDual or Quad processors highly recommended for efficient I/O processing

Operating System Any of the following Windows 32-bit operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4

Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4

RAM 1.5 GB

Disk space 10 GB, additional space is required for user data

Database See Database for database requirements.

Afaria SMS Integration Suite customers must ensure that the Afaria Server has network access to the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) database.

Component notes Patch Manager supports using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0 for feature implementation. Product documentation includes instruction for deploying MBSA to Patch Manager Clients.

Afaria Administrator

This setup assumes you are installing your Afaria Server and Afaria Administrator on separate servers within the same TCP/IP network.

  Recommended Setup

Processor 2 GHz or higher, Intel-compatible

Operating System Any of the following Windows 32-bit operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2003 Web Edition with Service Pack 1 Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4

Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4

RAM 512 MB

Disk space 10 GB, additional space is required for user data

Database See Database for database requirements.

Other Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 or 6.0.

See requirements for OTA Deployment Center for compatibility issues if you intend to install the deployment center on the same server.

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OTA Deployment Center

Afaria supports operating one OTA Deployment Center per Afaria installation. The Afaria installation may be a single Afaria Server or Afaria Server farm implementation.

Afaria Administrator (Windows IIS Web server) and Afaria OTA Deployment Center (Apache Web server) are typically on separate servers but can coexist if they are configured to ensure that they do not share TCP ports.

  Requirements

Operating System Any Windows 32-bit operating system that is compatible with the Apache HTTP server and PHP scripting engine requirements

Linux Enterprise Edition Version 4

Apache Server Apache HTTP Server 2.0.58

PHP scripting engine PHP Scripting Engine, version 5.1.4

Php Concept Library Zip

PclZip, version 2.5

Afaria database

Afaria supports the following databases in a production environment:

iAnywhere Adaptive Server® Anywhere 9.0.2 Patch 3044 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP 3a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Oracle Database 9i (9.2.0.1.0 Release 2) Oracle Database 10g

Configuring your database:

The Server uses a database to log all system activity, such as inventory data, file transfers, andalerts. You must install and configure your database prior to installing Afaria Server. If you areplanning to create a server farm environment, you select the database only when you install theserver farm master, but all the servers access the same database.Refer to the system requirements for complete database support information. Systemrequirements are available in the product release notes on the technical support site or fromyour Afaria representative.

Determining your database sizeYou can use the following formula to determine your database size:(Session size) * (# of Sessions/Day) * (# of Days) = Estimated database disk space growthper periodFor example, to determine the weekly disk space growth for 1000 daily sessions of averagesize:40K * 1000 * 7 = 280 MBSo in this example, the database will grow by 280 MB per week.Also note the following:• You should add 1 MB of data to our estimate for each Inventory Manager Client. Using InventoryManager to perform Client directory scans on Windows Clients adds significantly more data to thisestimate.• Sessions with 100 events add an average of 40 kb in database growth per session in additional logdata.

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