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VNE Server for Sentinel: Data Collection and Fusion
Version 3.5
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Supported Platforms¹

Vendor Series
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows XP Professional
Windows Server 2003
¹Note:
1. OPNET software is supported on the English language version of each operating system.
2. OPNET software is not supported on 64-bit editions of Windows operating systems, nor on Windows 2003 Web Edition.

Required System Patches

Vendor OS Patch Number/Name
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 2 minimum
Windows XP Professional N/A
Windows Server 2003 N/A

Windows System Configuration

  Processor² RAM¹ Disk FSB³
Minimum Intel Pentium 4 - 2.4GHz 2 GB 20 GB 800MHz
Intel Xeon - 2.4 GHz 2 GB 20 GB 533MHz
Recommended Intel Pentium 4 - 3+ GHz 3 GB 80GB 800 MHz
Intel Xeon - 3+ GHz 3 GB 80GB 800MHz
NOTE: VNE Server will not operate on machines with the Intel Itanium processor.
¹ VNE server performance will improve with more available memory as network size increases.
² A dual-processor configuration is recommended if VNE Server and the back-end Oracle database are to reside on the same platform.
³ Front-Side Bus (FSB) speed affects the speed of data transfer to and from the VNE Server database; faster bus speeds will improve VNE Server performance.

Other Requirements

Software Supported Version Required Database Character Set²
Oracle Database¹
Windows: Oracle 8i Release 4 (version 8.1.7.4.1)
or
Oracle 9i Release 2 (version 9.2.0.1 or higher)
WE8MSWIN1252
Solaris: Oracle 9i Release 2 (version 9.2.0.1 or higher)
WE8ISO8859P1
¹ Contact Oracle Corporation for information about Oracle 8i and 9i system requirements
²The supported national character set is: AL16UTF16
For international customers: The VNE 3.0 PL1 product may not operate correctly when used with Oracle databases that have been configured with international, or Unicode (AL32UTF8), database character sets."

VNE Server requires a dedicated Oracle database installation and dedicated database instance that cannot be shared with other applications.  The preferred configuration includes a dedicated Oracle database installation local to the system on which VNE Server is installed.

A shared Oracle instance where applications other than VNE Server share/access the database or database instance are NOT supported.  An Oracle database that is running on a system physically remote from or on a separate LAN from the VNE Server system is NOT supported.

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