Firewall Analyzer
System Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements for installing and working
with Firewall Analyzer are given below.
- 1GHz Pentium Dual Core processor or equivalent
- 1 GB of RAM*
- 1 GB of disk space*
- Monitor that supports 1024x768 resolution
*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.
Recommended Minimum RAM Requirement
| Log Records Rate |
RAM Size |
| Up to 100 Logs/sec |
1 GB |
| 100 - 500 Logs/sec |
2 GB |
| 500 - 1000 Logs/sec |
4 GB |
| Above 1000 Logs/sec |
4 GB (64 Bit) |
| Above 1000 Logs/sec |
8 GB |
Hard Disk Space Requirement
The split up is: Archive+Index+MySQL=Total
| Log Records Rate |
For 1 Day |
For 1 Week |
For 1 Month |
| 50 Logs/sec |
1+0.5+10.5=12 GB |
5+3+30=38 GB |
18+7+75=100 GB |
| 100 Logs/sec |
2+1+15=18 GB |
10+5+50=65 GB |
35+15+100=150 GB |
| 300 Logs/sec |
6+3+31=40 GB |
30+15+105=150 GB |
100+45+295=440 GB |
| 500 Logs/sec |
10+5+75=90 GB |
50+25+225=300 GB |
170+70+480=720 GB |
| 1000 Logs/sec |
20+10+150=180 GB |
95+45+500=640 GB |
325+125+950=1.4 TB |
| Log Records Rate |
For 3 Months |
For 6 Months |
For 1 Year |
| 50 Logs/sec |
60+25+125=210 GB |
120+40+160=320 GB |
240+90+300=630 GB |
| 100 Logs/sec |
110+50+240=400 GB |
220+80+320=720 GB |
450+170+580=1.2 TB |
| 300 Logs/sec |
280+120+600=1 TB |
500+200+800=1.5 TB |
900+350+1250=2.5 TB |
| 500 Logs/sec |
470+230+1100=1.8 TB |
900+400+2100=3.4 TB |
1700+700+3600=6 TB |
| 1000 Logs/sec |
920+480+2100=3.5 TB |
1750+750+4200=6 TB |
2850+1250+6400=10.5 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.
PostgreSQL Performance Improvement Parameters (for Firewall Analyzer version 7.5 Build 7500 onwards)
For better performance, we recommend replacing the existing PostgreSQL parameters
mentioned in postgres_ext.conf available under <Firewall Analyzer Home>\pgsql\data\
directory
Parameters |
Comments |
port = 33336
|
This change requires Firewall Analyzer Appplication/Service restart |
shared_buffers = 128 MB
|
Minimum requirement is 128 KB. This change requires Firewall Analyzer Appplication/Service restart |
work_mem = 12 MB
|
Minimum requirement is 64 KB. |
maintenance_work_mem = 100 MB
|
Minimum requirement is 1 MB. |
checkpoint_segments = 15
|
Logfile segments minimum 1 and 16 MB each |
checkpoint_timeout = 11 minutes
|
Range: 30 seconds to 1 hour |
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
|
checkpoint target duration is 0.0 - 1.0 |
seq_page_cost = 1.0
|
This parameter is measured in an arbitrary scale |
random_page_cost = 2.0
|
This parameter is measured in same scale as above |
effective_cache_size = 512MB
|
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| synchronous_commit=off |
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Firewall Analyzer has been tested to run on the following operating systems
and versions:
Windows®
- Windows 8
- Windows 7
- Windows NT
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2003 Server
- Windows 2008 Server
- Windows 2012 Server
Linux
- Ubuntu 9.1.10
- Fedora 12
- OpenSuSE 11.2
- CentOS 5.5
- Red Hat RHEL
- Mandrake
- Mandriva
- Debian
VMware
Supported Web Browsers
Firewall Analyzer has been tested to support the following browsers and versions:
- Internet Explorer 8 and later
- Firefox 4 and later
- Chrome 8 and later
Supported Databases
Bundled with the product
External Databases
- MS SQL 2000
- MS SQL 2005
- MS SQL 2008
- MS SQL 2012
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=300M
--key-buffer-size=150M
--max_heap_table_size=150M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=300M
--key_buffer_size=150M
--max_heap_table_size=150M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
| 2 GB |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M
--key-buffer-size=600M
--max_heap_table_size=350M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M
--key_buffer_size=600M
--max_heap_table_size=350M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
| 3 GB |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M
--key-buffer-size=600M
--max_heap_table_size=350M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=1400M
--key_buffer_size=1000M
--max_heap_table_size=350M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
| 4 GB |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=900M
--key-buffer-size=600M
--max_heap_table_size=350M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=1800M
--key_buffer_size=1200M
--max_heap_table_size=350M
--tmp_table_size=100M
--table-cache=512 |
