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System Requirements
Installation Machine:
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows
2000, or Windows XP Professional, or Windows NT4, Terminal Server
Edition, SP6 Note: For NT systems ONLY, you
also need the following:
MDAC 2.6 or higher Note:
On
Windows NT4 systems, the offline browsing pack must be installed.
This can be found in IE 5 SP1 or "Gold" edition.
The change updates the Schedule Service atsvc.exe to the Schedule
Task Tool mstask.exe according to Microsoft. For details,
consult Microsoft article, Q236773
English version operating system (for
both software and database)
500 MHz CPU or higher
256 MB RAM or greater Note: In addition to CPU speed
and available RAM, network traffic and resource utilization (such
as how many other applications are running on the installed system)
also affect performance.
Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher
Microsoft Installer (MSI)
Microsoft Task Scheduler with scheduling
service running
NetBIOS (over TCP/IP) protocol support
(depending on discovery method)
Remote Registry Service must be enabled
~35 MB free disk space available for
software
~60 MB free disk space available for
MSDE installation
(if necessary)
Valid user account with access rights
on the remote
database (if remote) and administrator rights on the local machine
Sufficient disk space for the patch
repository(ies)
Screen resolution of 800 x 600 or higher
To use alerts and triggers, a SNMP manager
(v2c traps) or a mail server must be available on the network
Database Considerations:
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000
for the database. Notes:
MSDE is a free Microsoft
database with a 2.5GB data limit, making it a viable option
for testing the database functionality or small environments.
MSDE can be upgraded to SQL Server at any time (without any
data loss).
Resource: Microsoft's
requirements for SQL
Database Creators role to create
a new database on an existing SQL server
Database "bulk insert"
administrator role
Roles db_datareader, db_datawriter,
and public rights to access the database
SQL Client
Disk space usage for the patch knowledge
database:
1.2KB of database space per system discovered
100KB of database space per system per
scan
1KB of database space per system per
patch pushed
Estimates per 1000 systems:
~ 1MB for the systems
~ 100MB per full network scan
~ 1MB per full network push
Windows Target Systems:
Scanning / Analysis
Remote Registry Service must be enabled
NetBIOS (over TCP/IP) protocol support
(depending on discovery method)
File and Print sharing protocol enabled
(for Microsoft networks)
Within workgroups, a local admin account
on each system that matches the username and password of the account
actively using Patch Manager on the installation system.
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4, Windows
2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, or higher (workstation
or server) Note: On Windows NT4 systems, the
offline browsing pack must be installed.
This can be found in IE 5 SP1 or "Gold" edition. The
change updates the Schedule Service atsvc.exe to the Schedule
Task Tool mstask.exe according to Microsoft. For more details,
consult Microsoft article, Q236773.
An account on each system that matches
the username and password of the account actively using Patch
Manager on the installation system.
Remediation / Rollback
Domain (or Enterprise) Administrator
rights for all the domains containing systems you want to analyse
Microsoft Task Scheduler
Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher
Sufficient disk space for the patch(es)
being installed
A share directory must exist
Unix Target Systems:
Scanning / Analysis
Solaris 7, 8, 9 (SPARC)
SSH and telnet are supported for connecting
to remote systems
FTP, scp, and SFTP are supported for
transferring files to remote systems
Remediation / Rollback
AT scheduler configured to allow root
to schedule jobs
Valid root credentials
The software logs in as the specified user and su to root
Sufficient disk space for the patch(es)
being installed
Reporting Center Host System:
Internet Information Services (Microsoft
IIS) version 5.0 or higher
Operator access to the "default
website" virtual directory on the web server
Microsoft Installer
Microsoft .Net Framework (version 1.1)
MDAC 2.7 or higher is required
If installed on a Domain Controller,
rights to create Domain accounts (users and groups)
If installed on a Member Server, rights
to create local accounts (users and groups)
If installed on NTFS partition, NTFS
permissions of Read/Write/Execute to the Reporting Center install
directory Note: To access and fully utilise
the reporting center, the machine accessing the reporting center
must have IE 5.5 or higher installed.
Supported:
OS Service Packs
Microsoft Office 2000 SR1-a or higher
and XP
Microsoft Windows NT4 SP4 / 2000 /2003
/ XP
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 2000
Microsoft Media Player 6.4, 7.0, 7.1,
8.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or
later
Microsoft Internet Information Services
4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000
Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC)
Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE)
Microsoft Windows NT4, Terminal Server
Edition
Solaris 7 - 9 (SPARC) operating systems
Microsoft Windows, international edition
of supported OS
