Wanguard 6.2 User Guide
Wanguard Installation
Flow Sensor Hardware Requirements
Capacity
Minimum Hardware Requirements for 15,000 flows/s
Architecture
64-bit x86
CPU
2.0 GHz dual-core Xeon
RAM
8 GB
NICs
1 x Fast Ethernet for management
HDDs
2 x 7200 RPM HDD, RAID 1, 60 GB
Flow Sensor does not have a limit on the number of interfaces it can monitor or a limit of how many flows
per second it can process. Each Flow Sensor can handle the flows of a single flow exporter. A server with enough
RAM can run tens of Flow Sensors. The amount of RAM is much more important than the CPU speed.
Flow Sensor can store flow data on the local disk in a highly compressed binary format.
SNMP Sensor Hardware Requirements
Capacity
Minimum Hardware Requirements for 20 Devices
Architecture
64-bit x86
CPU
1.6 GHz dual-core Xeon
RAM
1 GB
NICs
1 x Fast Ethernet for management
HDDs
2 x 5200 RPM HDD, RAID 1, 20 GB
SNMP Sensor does not have a limit on the number of interfaces it can monitor. Each SNMP Sensor can
monitor a single device. A server can run an unlimited number of SNMP Sensors.
Sensor Cluster Hardware Requirements
The hardware requirements for Sensor Cluster are very low because the traffic information is pre-aggregated
by the associated Sensors (Flow Sensors, Packet Sensors or SNMP Sensors).
It is recommended to run Sensor Cluster on the Console server.
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