System Requirements

Installation Machine:

• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP Professional, or Windows NT4 SP6a Terminal Server EditionNote: 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 (NOT 2003; English only)
• Microsoft Windows NT4 SP6a / 2000 /2003 / XP
• Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 2000
• Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01, 5.5, 6.0 (English only)
• Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 for Windows Server 2003 (English only)
• 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 sp6a Terminal Server Edition
• Solaris 7 - 9 (SPARC) operating systems
• Microsoft Windows, international edition of supported OS
  • Dutch
  • Spanish
  • German
  • Swedish
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Italian
  • Portugese
  • Japanese

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