System requirements

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

Table 1. Prerequisites and system requirements for 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.