Server requirements
To find the latest information about the server requirements, see System Requirements .
Notes about Windows operating systems:
- Only the 64-bit architecture is supported for installing the BigFix server and Web Reports components on Windows systems.
- The Windows firewall can be either turned off or configured to open the following two ports:
- Port 52311 for UDP and TCP/IP
- Port 8083 for Web Reports and TCP/IP
- Windows BigFix servers cannot be migrated to Linux BigFix servers.
- Since the May 2023 WebUI update, the WebUI component can be installed on Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2022.
- IBM DB2 11.5 / 11.5.4 / 11.5.5 / 11.5.6 / 11.5.7 / 11.5.8. For information about how to install DB2 server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 64-bit, see Installing and configuring DB2.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 x86 64-bit requires IBM DB2 11.5.4.
- Red Hat packages required by BigFix
Linux server and Web Reports components:
cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64
libstdc++.x86_64
and all their prerequisitespam.x86_64
krb5-libs.x86_64
unixODBC.x86_64
fontconfig.x86_64
(Web Reports only)libXext.x86_64
(Web Reports only)libXrender.x86_64
(Web Reports only)zlib.x86_64
(Web Reports only)libpng12.x86_64
(RHEL 7 only)numactl.x86_64
(embedded DB2 installations only)pam.i686
(embedded DB2 installations only)libstdc++.i686
(embedded DB2 installations only)
Installation or upgrade of the Server components on Linux installs the unixODBC RPM package which is a prerequisite for version 10.0.2. If Yum is not configured on the Linux system, you must manually install the unixODBC RPM package prior to running the installation or upgrade.
- Since the May 2023 WebUI update, the WebUI component can be installed only on Red Hat Linux 8 (64-bit).
Minimum disk space requirements to install BigFix server
and Web Reports on Linux:
- BigFix Server: 400MB; DB2: 1GB (6GB recommended)
- BigFix Web Reports: 200MB; DB2: 700MB
This is the disk space used in each file system for installing the server components:
- 160 MB in /var
- 240 MB in /opt
This is the disk space used in each file system for installing
the Web Reports components:
- 170 MB in /var/opt/BESWebReportsServer
- 30 MB in /opt/BESWebReportsServer