User Guide

2 Requirements 4
7signal Solutions Inc., 526 S. Main Street, Akron, Ohio 44311, USA, 855-763-9526, [e-mail],
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7signal Sapphire Deployment Guide Release 5.0
2 REQUIREMENTS
2.1 Carat server requirements
The Carat server controls the Eye units and collects and stores measurement results in the database.
Carat server runs on the Linux operating system and can be installed on a dedicated server or virtual
environment.
The Carat server minimum requirements are below:
• Quad core x86 32-bit or x86_64 64-bit Intel and AMD processors
• minimum 6 GB RAM
• installation minimum 10GB hard disk space required
• recommended minimum database space 500GB
o depending on target network size, (for reference, typical data volume = uncompressed
raw measurement data /AP/month = circa 50MB)
o separate 100GB partition for database backups
• Network connection
• CentOS 5/6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
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 or x86_64 64-bit Intel and AMD processors
• Network connection
• CentOS 5/6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
• 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.
2.3 Soft Eye laptop PC requirements
The Soft Eye laptop PC minimum requirements are listed below:
 Dual core x86 32-bit or x86_64 64-bit Intel and AMD processors
 Network connection
 CentOS 6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
 Minimum 2GB RAM
 WLAN network interface card
o Suitable cards are listed in Release Notes document
o Both PCI and USB cards are supported.
o If the PC has both PCI and USB WLAN cards, Sapphire Eye will use USB card.