The minimum hardware requirements for installing and working with
EventLog Analyzer are given below.
- 1GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent
- 512 MB of RAM
- 1GB of disk space*
- Monitor that supports 1024x768 resolution
* The following table recommends the disk space and RAM
size requirements of the system where EventLog Analyzer is
installed. The disk space and RAM size requirements depends
on the number of host sending log information to EventLog
Analyzer, the number of host log records received per
second or the host log data received per day by EventLog
Analyzer. The calculation is worked out for 100 hosts and an average log record size of 350 bytes.
Log Records Rate or
Volume |
RAM Size |
Hard Disk Space Requirement
Per Month to Archive Logs |
100/sec or 3 GB/day |
1 GB |
300 GB |
500/sec or 14 GB/day |
2 GB |
1440 GB |
1000/sec or 28 GB/day |
4 GB |
2880 GB |
For better performance, you can replace the existing MySQL parameters mentioned in startDB.bat/sh, available under <Eventlog Analyzer Home>\bin directory, with the following MySQL parameter changes corresponding to the EventLog Analyzer servers RAM Size.
Hardware RAM Size |
MySQL Parameter Changes |
512 MB |
Default configuration as given in startDB.bat/sh |
1 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=500M " |
2 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1200M " |
3 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1500M " |
4 GB |
" --innodb_buffer_pool_size=1500M " |
EventLog Analyzer can be installed and run on the following
operating systems and versions:
- Windows™ 2000, XP & Vista and Windows™ 2003 & 2008 Servers
- Linux - RedHat 8.0/9.0, Mandrake/Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS
Note: If EventLog Analyzer is installed
in SuSE Linux, then ensure that in the mysql-ds.xml
file, present under <EventLogAnalyzer_Home>/server/default/deploy
you replace localhost mentioned in the following
line : <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:33335/eventlog</connection-url>
with the corresponding IP Address or DNS resolvable name of
the current system where EventLog Analyzer is installed.
EventLog Analyzer can collect and report on system logs received or collected from
the following systems:
- Windows™ 2000, XP & Vista
- Windows™ 2003 & 2008 Servers
- Linux - RedHat, Debian, SuSE
- UNIX - Solaris, HP-UX, AIX
- Cisco Router & Switches
- SNARE for Windows
- and other syslog supported devices
Note:
- For analyzing logs from Windows NT machine, WMI core should
have been installed in the Windows NT machine.
- Syslogs received from SNARE agents for Windows will be displayed as Windows hosts.
EventLog Analyzer has been tested to support the following
browsers and versions:
- Internet Explorer 5.5 and later
- Netscape 7.0 and later
- Mozilla 1.5 and later
- Firefox 1.0 and later
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