System Requirements. Novell Security Manager Powered by Astaro

Installation

The requirements for installing and using Novell Security Manager are:

Hardware

• Processor: Pentium II or compatible (up to 100 users)

• Processor: Pentium III or compatible (above 100 users)

• 256 MB RAM

• 8 GB IDE or SCSI hard drive

• Bootable IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive

• 2 or more PCI Ethernet network cards

• For wireless LAN access: a wireless LAN PCMCIA card with the Prism2,

Prism2,5 or Prism3 chipset (or compatible)

Important Note:

The High Availability (HA), Wireless LAN, and Virtual LAN subsystems require extra hardware. Please check the Hardware Compati- bility List for Novell Security Manager powered by Astaro

, available at

http://www.novell.com/documentation/nsma51 for compatibility.

To make Heart Beat monitoring of the High Availability (HA) system easier, we recommend using network cards from the Hardware Compati-

bility List (HCL) for all interfaces. The installation of the HA system is described in detail in chapter 4.1.10 on page 74.

Administration PC

• Correct configuration of the Default Gateway, IP Address, and

Subnet Mask

• An HTTPS-compliant browser (Microsoft Explorer 5.0 or newer, Netscape

Communicator 6.1 or newer, or Mozilla 1.6+):

JavaScript must be activated.

The browser must be configured not to use a proxy for the IP address of the Security Manager’s internal network card (eth0).

Browser configuration is discussed in chapter 4.6.1 on page 168.

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Installation

Example Configuration

As in the diagram on the left,

Novell Security Manager should be the only link between the internal and external networks.

Address Table

Internal network interface

External network interface

DMZ network interface 1)

Network interface for the HA system 2)

IP Address Network Mask Default Gateway

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1) The third and further network cards are optional.

2) Network interface for the High Availability system.

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