System Requirements _ ACE Plus 14.5

ACE Analyst Plus 14.5 System Requirements

Supported Platforms *

Vendor	OS	Processor
Microsoft	Windows 2000 Professional	x86 or EM64T (Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, Core, or compatible 1.5 GHz or better) x86 AMD or AMD64 (1.5 GHz or better)
	Windows XP Professional
	Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
	Windows 2000 Server
	Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2
	Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (v2.4 Linux kernel)	x86 or EM64T (Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, or compatible, 1.5 GHz or better) x86 AMD or AMD64, 1.5 GHz or better
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (v2.6 Linux kernel)

Required System Patches

Vendor	OS	Patch Number/Name
Microsoft	Windows 2000 Professional	Service Packs 1, 2, and 4 are supported but not required.
Microsoft	Windows XP Professional	Service Pack 1 is required; Service Pack 2 is supported but not required.
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (v2.4 Linux kernel)	libstdc++.so.6 is required (This is easily installed by installing gcc 3.4 or higher.)

WAN Optimization Support

Supports import of packet traces captured in WAN accelerated environments with the following appliances:

Vendor	Appliance	Software Version
Cisco	Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)	Version 4.0
Riverbed	Steelhead	RiOS 4.1, or RiOS 5.0
Juniper	WX, WXC	Version 5.5.1

System Configuration: ACE Analyst Plus **

RAM
Minimum 512 MB, recommended 1GB - 2GB

System File Space
3 GB (Up to 2GB of additional free disk space may be required during installation).

Working File Space
100 MB or more for temporary and log files

Display
Resolution: 1024x768 minimum

Other Requirements: ACE Analyst Plus

Supporting software
TCP/IP networking software is required.

Special Requirements (Linux)
On Linux installations the license file must be stored in either the /opt or /var/adm directory. The directory that is chosen must be located on a local hard drive or partition, may not be a symlink, and may not be a network mounted partition.

Browser
Firefox 1.0.6 or higher, Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, or a compatible browser that supports Style Sheets.

Application Capture Agents

ACE Analyst ships with free and unlimited Application Capture Agents.

Application Capture Agent System Requirements

External Software Compatibility

Supported Packet Formats

Supported Protocol Decodes

* OPNET software is supported on the English language version of each operating system.

** Recommended system configuration varies based on scale and complexity of analysis being performed. Please contact your OPNET representative to determine recommendations for your specific deployment.