System requirements

Learn more about the prerequisites and system requirements for BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) service.

Table 1. Prerequisites and system requirements for IVR service
Hardware requirements
CPU minimum 2 cores (recommended 4)
RAM On top of host OS requirements:
  • < 1M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 16GB
  • < 2M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 32GB
  • < 3M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 48GB
  • < 4M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 64GB
Disc space
  • < 1M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 4GB - 8GB preferred
  • < 2M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 8GB - 12GB preferred
  • < 3M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 12GB - 16GB preferred
  • < 4M Findings from Vulnerability Management Product = 16GB - 20GB preferred
Execution Time The overall run time of data synchronization and processing depends on:
  • CPU Speed
  • Number of findings
  • Number of assets in insights
  • Number of patch sites loaded within the BFE environment
  • API latency
  • Conflicting workloads on IVR machine
Software requirements
BigFix Component Requirements
Prerequisites
Operating system
  • Microsoft Windows 2016
  • Microsoft Windows 2019 
Supported BigFix versions
  • Windows - based BigFix Server, Version 10
    Note: BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation does not currently support non-Windows-based BigFix Server environments.
BigFix License Requirements
  • BigFix Lifecycle
  • BigFix Compliance
  • BigFix Remediate
Supported Vulnerability Management Platforms
  • Qualys VMDR v2 REST API:

    https://www.qualys.com/docs/qualys-api-vmpc-user-guide.pdf

  • Tenable.SC versions from 5.17 up to 6.4
  • Tenable.IO
    Note: It is required to use Administrator user role within Tenable to enable the generation of API keys that are used by IVR to maintain the interface with Tenable.
BI tool
Network requirements
  • Connectivity to Vulnerability Management API Server URL (port 443 by default)
  • Connectivity to BigFix Insights SQL database (port 1433 by default)
    Note: IVR now supports proxy-based connectivity. Refer to the link for more information.
  • By default WebUI IVR app listens on port 52318. It can be changed in the WebUI application configuration file with _WebUIAppEnv_INSIGHT_BROKER_PORT setting.
System limitations
  • Only one source of vulnerability data for automatic ingestion is supported for a given BigFix Insights instance
  • A single BigFix WebUI instance can manage only one BigFix Insights database.