System Requirements _ ACE Application Capture Agents

System Requirements

3.8 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor	PathProbe Support	Server Statistics Support
Microsoft¹	Windows XP (x86) Windows XP (x64)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows 2000 (x86) Windows Server 2003 (x86) Windows Vista (x86) Windows Server 2003 (x64) Windows Vista (x64)	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Supported

¹Note: Capturing in the presence of TCP Chimney is not supported. Please see FAQ-2071 for more details.

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3.6 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor	PathProbe Support	Server Statistics Support
Microsoft¹	Windows XP (x86) Windows XP (x64)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows 2000 (x86) Windows Server 2003 (x86) Windows Vista (x86) Windows Server 2003 (x64) Windows Vista (x64)	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Supported

¹Note: Capturing in the presence of TCP Chimney is not supported. Please see FAQ-2071 for more details.

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3.5 System Requirements

Supported Platforms ²

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor	PathProbe Support	Server Statistics Support
Apple	Mac OS X (10.3.9 and higher)	None	PowerPC	Supported	Not Supported
Hewlett-Packard	HP UX 11.i (32- and 64-bit PA-RISC)	PHSS_21906	PA7000 v1.1c or higher	Not Supported	Not Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows 2000 and Server 2003 (32-bit ONLY)	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Supported
Microsoft¹	Window XP (32-bit ONLY)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Supported
IBM	AIX 5.x (32- and 64-bit)	None	RS/6000	Not Supported	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 8 (32- and 64-bit)	Recommended Cluster Patch	SPARC Family	Supported.	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 8 (32- and 64-bit)	Recommended Cluster Patch	(e.g. UltraSPARC)	UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 9 (32- and 64-bit)	None	SPARC Family	Supported	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 9 (32- and 64-bit)	None	(e.g. UltraSPARC)	UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 10 (32- and 64-bit)	None	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)	Not Supported	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 10 (32- and 64-bit)	None	(e.g. UltraSPARC)	Not Supported	Not Supported
Various	Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6.	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Not Supported
Various	We support both 32- and 64-bit Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6 with glibc 2.2.4 or later²	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported	Not Supported

¹Note: Capturing in the presence of TCP Chimney is not supported. Please see FAQ-2071 for more details.

² Note: This includes the following standard Linux distributions:

RedHat: 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL2.1, RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5
openSUSE (formerly SUSE Linux): 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2
Novel Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 9, 10
Fedora: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

3.2 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor	PathProbe Support
Apple	Mac OS X (10.2 and higher)	None	PowerPC	Not Supported
Hewlett-Packard	HP UX 11.0 (32-bit only)	PHSS_21906	PA7000 v1.1c or higher	Not Supported
IBM	AIX 5.x (32-bit only)	None	RS/6000	Not Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 8	Recommended Cluster Patch	SPARC Family(e.g. UltraSPARC)	Supported.UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 9	None	SPARC Family(e.g. UltraSPARC)	SupportedUltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 10	None	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)(e.g. UltraSPARC)	Not SupportedNot Supported
Various	Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6. We support both 32- and 64-bit Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6 with glibc 2.3.2 or later	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported

3.1 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor	PathProbe Support
Microsoft¹	Windows NT 4.0	Service Pack 3, 5, or 6a. Note: SP4 and SP6 are NOT supported.	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows 2000 and Server 2003 (32-bit ONLY) (32-bit ONLY)	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported
Microsoft¹	Window XP (32-bit ONLY)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 7	106327-06 or more recent	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)	Supported. UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 8	Recommended Cluster Patch	SPARC Family(e.g. UltraSPARC)	Supported.UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 9	None	SPARC Family(e.g. UltraSPARC)	SupportedUltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe

¹Note: Capturing in the presence of TCP Chimney is not supported. Please see FAQ-2071 for more details.

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2.4 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor	PathProbe Support
Microsoft¹	Windows 95	Windows Socket 2 Update	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Not Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows 98/ME	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Not Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows NT 4.0	Service Pack 3, 5, or 6a. Note: SP4 and SP6 are NOT supported.	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported
Microsoft¹	Windows 2000 and Server 2003 (32-bit ONLY) (32-bit ONLY)	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported
Microsoft¹	Window XP (32-bit ONLY)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible	Supported
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 7	106327-06 or more recent	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)	Supported. UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 8	Recommended Cluster Patch	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)	Supported. UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 9	None	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)	Supported. UltraSPARC processor required for PathProbe

¹Note: Capturing in the presence of TCP Chimney is not supported. Please see FAQ-2071 for more details.

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2.2 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor
Microsoft	Windows 95	Windows Socket 2 Update	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows 98/ME	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows NT 4.0	Service Pack 3, 5, or 6a. Note: SP4 and SP6 are NOT supported.	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows 2000	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Window XP (32-bit ONLY)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible

2.1 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor
Microsoft	Windows 95	Windows Socket 2 Update	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows 98/ME	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows NT 4.0	Service Pack 3, 5, or 6a. Note: SP4 and SP6 are NOT supported.	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows 2000	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Window XP (32-bit ONLY)	Service Pack 1	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible

2.0 System Requirements

Supported Platforms

Vendor	OS	Required System Patches	Processor
Microsoft	Windows 95	Windows Socket 2 Update	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows 98/ME	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows NT 4.0	Service Pack 3, 5, or 6a. Note: SP4 and SP6 are NOT supported.	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Microsoft	Windows 2000	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 2.6	105591-09 or more recent	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 7	106327-06 or more recent	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)
Sun Microsystems	Solaris 8 and 9	None	SPARC Family (e.g. UltraSPARC)
various	Linux Kernel 2.2 and 2.4	None	Intel Pentium III, 4, or Compatible
Hewlett-Packard	HP UX 11.0 (32-bit ONLY)	PHSS_21906	PA7000 v1.1c or higher
IBM	AIX 4.3.3, 5.x (32-bit ONLY)"	None	RS/6000

VMware Support

The ACE Capture Agents are supported on VMware. Please refer to FAQ 2089 for additional details.