System Requirements

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

Hardware Requirements

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

Processor: 1GHz Intel™ Pentium 4 or equivalent

Memory*: 512MB of RAM

Disk Space*: 1GB for the product.

Firewall Analyzer is optimized for 1024x768 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.

Log Records Rate or Volume	RAM Size	Hard Disk Space Requirement Per Month to Archive Logs
50/sec or 1.5 GB/day	512 MB	30 GB
100/sec or 3 GB/day	1 GB	90 GB
300/sec or 9 GB/day	2 GB	270 GB
500/sec or 15 GB/day	2 GB	450 GB
1000/sec or 30 GB/day	3 GB	900 GB
2000/sec or 60 GB/day	4 GB	1.8 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 MySQL 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.

MySql Performance Improvement Parameters

For better performance, we recommend replacing the existing MySQL parameters mentioned in startDB.bat/sh, available under <FirewallAnalyzerHome>\bin directory, with the following MySQL parameters changes for the corresponding RAM Size.

RAM Size	MySQL Parameters For Windows Installation	MySQL Parameters For Linux Installation
512 MB	Default configuration as given in startDB.bat	Default configuration as given in startDB.sh
1 GB	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=400M --key_buffer_size=250M --tmp_table_size=100M	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=400M --key_buffer_size=250M --tmp_table_size=100M
2 GB	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M --key_buffer_size=600M --tmp_table_size=100M	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M --key_buffer_size=600M --tmp_table_size=100M
3 GB	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M --key_buffer_size=600M --tmp_table_size=100M	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=1400M --key_buffer_size=1000M --tmp_table_size=100M
4 GB	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M --key_buffer_size=600M --tmp_table_size=100M	--innodb_buffer_pool_size=1800M --key_buffer_size=1200M --tmp_table_size=100M

Supported Operating Systems

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

Windows™ NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista
Linux - RedHat 8.0/9.0, Mandrake/Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS

Note: If Firewall Analyzer is installed in SuSE Linux, then ensure that in the mysql-ds.xml file, present under <FirewallAnalyzer_Home>/server/default/deploy you replace localhost mentioned in the following line : <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:33336/firewall</connection-url> with the corresponding IP Address or DNS resolvable name of the current system where Firewall Analyzer is installed.

Supported Web Browsers

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

Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
Netscape 7.0 or later
Mozilla 1.5 or later
Firefox 1.0 or later