2.1 System Requirements

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The UNIX agent, when used with Secure Configuration Manager, has the following system requirements.

Item	Requirement
NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager	5.9 or later
Operating system on agent computers	One of the following: CentOS HP-UX IBM AIX Oracle Linux Oracle Solaris Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Operating system on UNIX Agent Manager computers	One of the following: Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows 8 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2012
Memory on agent computers	512 MB
Memory on UNIX Agent Manager	UNIX agents require the following: 128 MB minimum RAM 512 MB swap file (virtual memory)
Hard disk space on agent computers	350 MB plus 400 Bytes per inode used by local file systems
Hard disk space on UNIX Agent Manager computers	1.2 GB
Accounts	The UNIX Deployment wizard uses the su command to access the root account on the computer on which you want to install UNIX agents. The root password is used by the wizard only at installation and is not stored. If you cannot use the root account, you can deploy using an account with sudo privileges.
Default port assignments	UNIX agent uses the following default ports: 2620: The UNIX agent listens for communication from UNIX Agent Manager. 1622: The UNIX agent listens for communication from Secure Configuration Manager. 1627: Secure Configuration Manager listens for communication from the UNIX agent when using standard communication algorithms. 1621: Secure Configuration Manager listens for communication from the UNIX agent when using FIPS-certified encryption algorithms. You can use the Configure option in UNIX Agent Manager to change the port assignments.