System Requirements

Here you get information about the system requirements of the software components Pulsar-Agent, Observer, Hacktor and Watchdog.

Pulsar-Agent

The Pulsar agent is very economical with hardware resources and has no special hardware requirements.

OS	Linux, Windows List of all supported OS's
CPU	4 Cores (Recommendation)
RAM	1 GB
Connectivity	Outgoing: Port 80 resp. 443

Hacktor/Watchdog/Observer

The software components can be operated jointly on one system, but separate operation is recommended. In the case of joint operation, the resources must be doubled.

These are minimum requirements. Equip the instances with more power so that the software components have more performance reserves.

An observer with the specified resources can monitor up to 50 endpoints. For endpoints, note the option to define parallel processing of endpoints. The default setting is “2.” Depending on the performance reserves, you can adjust the setting up or down. You also have the option of assigning multiple observers to the same region so that the observers share the monitoring of the endpoints among themselves.

Also note the options for configuring the Hacktor software component, in particular the option to increase the number of parallel scans.

OS	Linux: Debian 11/12, no Windows AMD64, ARM64, ARMv7/ARMv8
CPU	2 cores/4 cores (when services are operated jointly)
RAM	2 cores / 4 cores (when services are operated jointly)
Mass storage	20 GB / 50 GB (when services are operated jointly)
Connectivity	Outgoing: Port 80 resp. 443
Maximum number of processes (numproc)	Minimal: 20.000 Best Practice: unlimited

On-Premises

Would you like to run the Enginsight application on your own servers? All information about the system requirements for an on-premises installation you get here.