FrontRange Discovery System Requirements

Client Operating Systems

Client Audit Platforms

Windows Platforms

Servers: Windows® 2008 Server x86 & x64 (Enterprise SP2, Standard SP2, Web SP2, Datacenter SP2), 2003 Server x86 & x64 (Enterprise R2 SP2, Standard R2 SP2, Web R2 SP2)
Desktops: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT4, ME, 98SE
Mobile: Windows Mobile® 2003, 2003SE & 5.0

Unix Platforms

RedHat Linux 9, Enterprise Linux Server x86 3.1, 4.4, 4.5, 5.3, Enterprise Linux Server x64 5.3
SUSE Linux x86 9.3, 10.0, 10.2, 11, x64 11
HP-UX v11 iv1, 2 & 3
Sun Solaris 8 2/04, 9 9/05, 10 6/06, 10 11/06, 10 8/07

IBM AIX 5.3

Mac OS X (and OS X Server) 10.3.9, 10.4.11, 10.5.8, 10.6.1.

Terminal Services Platforms

Windows 2000 and 2003 Terminal Services
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 & 5.0
Citrix MetaFrame XP Server, Application Farm

Note: The current shipping version of FrontRange Discovery is version 9. The technical information below is accurate for this version; for previous versions of Discovery, please check with FrontRange Global Support.

Supported Server Operating Systems

FrontRange Discovery 9 can be installed on the following server platforms:

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x86) & R2 SP2 (x86 + x64)
Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 (x86) & R2 SP2 (x86 + x64)
Windows Server 2003 Web SP2 (x86) & R2 SP2 (x86 + x64)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 (x86 + x64) & R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 (x86 + x64) & R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2008 Web SP2 (x86 + x64) & R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter SP2 (x86 + x64) & R2 (x64)

Note: Windows XP and Vista are suitable for evaluation and remote control centre support only.

Supported Databases

FrontRange Discovery 9 is supported on the following databases:

MS SQL Server 2005 Standard (x86) SP2 and 3
MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (x86) SP2 and 3
MS SQL Server 2005 Express (x86) SP2 and 3
SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (x86 + x64) SP1
SQL Server 2008 Standard (x86 + x64) SP1
SQL Server 2008 Express (x86 + x64) SP1

Minimum Server Requirements

Approx Number of Clients	Minimum Processor	Minimum Memory	Minimum SQL Version	Minimum Disk Space
50	Dual Core (or equivalent)	2GB	MS SQL 2005 Express	2GB
500	Dual Core (or equivalent)	4GB	MS SQL 2005	4GB
1000	Dual Core (or equivalent)	4GB	MS SQL 2005	8GB
2500	Dual Core (or equivalent)	8GB	MS SQL 2005	8GB
5000	Quad Core (or equivalent)	16GB	MS SQL 2008	16GB
10,000+*	Quad Core (or equivalent)	16GB+	MS SQL 2008	20GB+

* For more than 10,000 clients, we recommend working with FrontRange Solutions directly to determine the exact server requirements for your needs.

LANProbe Requirements

LANProbe operates over an IPv4 ethernet network on x86 installations of Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003

Network Environments

TCP/IPv4

Secure Communication

Public/Private key encryption using HTTP over TCP/IP

Web Reporting Interface Requirements

Microsoft IIS5, IIS6
MS .NET Framework 3.5
(shipped with full version of FrontRange Discovery 9)

Supported Browsers

The Discovery.Dashboard web interface is designed to be W3C compliant. It is currently tested against the following browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 & 8
Mozilla Firefox 3.x

Language Support

FrontRange Discovery is available in the following languages: