ZENworks® ESM 3.5 Administrator’s Manual 12
System Requirements
ASP.NET
The Policy Distribution, Management, and Client Location Assurance services require a LOCAL
account of ASP.NET to be enabled. If this is disabled, the services will NOT work correctly.
Reliable Time Stamp
The Novell ESM solution gathers data from multiple sources and collates this data to create a
wide variety of security and audit reports. The utility and probative value of these reports is
greatly diminished if disparate sources disagree as to times, and so it is strongly recommended
that anyone installing ESM provide for enterprise-wide time synchronization (such as that
provided by Active Directory, or through the use of Network Time Protocol).
The ESM Administrator(s) should follow all installation, operation, and maintenance
recommendations provided in this document and the ESM Installation and Quick-Start
guide, in order to ensure a strong security environment.
Table 1: System Requirements
Server System Requirements Endpoint System Requirements
Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
Windows 2003 Server
Processor:
3.0 GHz Pentium 4 HT (or greater)
756 MB RAM minimum (1 GB+ Recommended)
Disk Space:
500 MB - Without local Microsoft SQL database
5 GB - With local MS SQL database (SCSI recom-
mended)
Required Software:
Supported RDBMS (SQL Server Standard, SQL
Server Enterprise, Microsoft SQL Server 2000
SP4, or SQL 2005)
Microsoft Internet Information Services (config-
ured for SSL)
Supported Directory Services (eDirectory, Active
Directory, or NT Domains*)
* = NT Domains is only supported when the Management Ser-
vice is installed on a Windows 2000, or 2000 advanced server
(SP4).
Operating Systems:
Windows XP SP1
Windows XP SP2
Windows 2000 SP4
Processor:
600MHz Pentium 3 (or greater)
Minimum 128 MB RAM (256 MB or greater recom-
mended
Disk Space:
5 MB required, 5 additional MB recommended for
reporting data
Required Software:
Windows 3.1 Installer
All Windows updates should be current
