GroundWork System Requirements

GroundWork Monitor runs on most modern Intel-compatible hardware and is certified on the following platforms.

  • Intel x86 32-bit and 64-bit
  • AMD x86 32-bit and 64-bit

GroundWork can monitor many diverse systems, applications and devices as listed here. The central monitoring server requires one of the following Linux distributions.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server, 32 or 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 32 or 64-bit
  • CentOS 5, 32 or 64-bit
  • CentOS 4, 32-bit
  • Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and 11
  • Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS and 9.10 Note: For Enterprise core. Does not include NMS or Cacti.

Recommended Browser Requirements

  • Firefox 3.x
  • Internet Explorer 7 or 8

Recommended Minimum Hardware Specification

  • 4 GB RAM or more
  • 2 CPU, 3 GHz P4 or better
  • 160 GB disk

Recommended Hardware Specification

Required for distributed architectures, NMS, and use of GDMA.

  • Quad Core 2 class CPU
  • 8 GB RAM or more
  • 200GB disk for system
  • 500GB disk for application

Supports up to 750 active service checks / minute with standard profiles.