User's Manual

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7signal Sapphire Deployment Guide Release 3.1
2 REQUIREMENTS
2.1 Carat server requirements
Carat server controls Eye units and collects measurement results to the database. Carat server
runs on Linux operating system and can be installed to dedicated server or virtual
environment.
The Carat server minimum requirements are below:
• Dual core x86 32-bit Intel and AMD processors
• minimum 2 GB RAM
• installation minimum 10GB hard disk space required
• recommended minimum database space 100GB
o depending on target network size, (for reference, typical data volume =
uncompressed raw measurement data /AP/month = circa 50MB)
• Network connection
• CentOS 5.4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
2.2 Sonar server requirements
Sonar is an end-point software for Sapphire active tests. Sonar server runs on Linux operating
system and can be installed to dedicated server or virtual environment.
The Sonar server minimum requirements are below:
• Dual core x86 32-bit Intel and AMD processors
• Network connection
• CentOS 5.4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
• Minimum 2GB RAM
To best reflect the business-application behavior, Sonar server would benefit from similar
characteristics than the server running the business application. For example, the Windows
TCP/IP stack implementation may limit performance by default.