2.4 Installation Options

Use this section to determine the installation option that suits your environment.

Traditional Installation

This form of installation provides the following:

  • The flexibility to select the operating system vendor of your choice

  • The flexibility to manage your own licenses and patch updates

  • The flexibility to set firewall yourself

  • More customization options for product configuration during installation

Appliance Installation

This form of installation provides the following:

  • A Change Guardian server appliance that is a ready-to-run software appliance built on SUSE Studio

  • An integrated update service for both product and the operating system that are available by Micro Focus

  • Preconfigured firewall

  • A web interface to configure and manage the appliance and receive the patch updates