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NCM and LMS Co-residency Overview
Windows Server Requirements
NCM and LMS Co-residency Requirements
NCM and LMS Co-residency Overview
As a CiscoWorks application, CiscoWorks Network Compliance Manager (NCM) integrates with the extensive features and capabilities of other CiscoWorks products. It also provides cross-launch of various features across CiscoWorks NCM and other CiscoWorks applications such as the LAN Management Solution (LMS) bundle.
Integration features include:
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Importing of detailed network inventory and configuration data from CiscoWorks DCR, ensuring data consistency between the two CiscoWorks products.
•Launching CiscoWorks NCM from the CiscoWorks Home Page, enabling a centralized dashboard for network operations tasks.
•Accessing other CiscoWorks applications from CiscoWorks NCM menus, including CiscoWorks Device Center and CiscoView.
This chapter provides information on:
• Windows Server Requirements
• NCM and LMS Co-residency Requirements
Note NCM co-residency with LMS is only supported on the Windows platform.
Windows Server Requirements
The following tables provide the recommended requirements when installing NCM on a Windows platform. Keep in mind that the application server and the database server can be configured together or separately depending on the size of the network.
Note You must stop other network management applications, Web servers, databases, and Syslog/TFTP servers running on the same system before installing NCM. Applications include anti-virus (during Setup only) and WWW Publishing Server applications.
Table 1-1 Requirements for the Application Server on the Windows Platform
OS
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Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (recommended)
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Windows 2000 Server with SP4
Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4
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CPU
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Intel Xeon or equivalent, 3.0+ GHz
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Memory
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2 GB RAM
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Disk
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10 GB, Fast SCSI
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Network
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100 Mbps Fast Ethernet, full duplex
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Applications
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Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher (for viewing documentation)
Microsoft Excel 2000 or higher (for viewing Summary Reports)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher or Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or higher
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Table 1-2 Requirements for the Database Server on the Windows Platform
Supported Databases
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One of the following:
•Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SP 2)
•Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•MySQL Max 3.23.55 (included with NCM)
•Oracle 9.2 (32 bit)
•Oracle 10.2
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CPU
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Intel Xeon or equivalent, 3.0+ GHz
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Memory
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2 GB RAM
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Disk
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18 GB, Single Channel RAID, Fast SCSI
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Network
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100 Mbps Fast Ethernet, full duplex
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Table 1-3 Requirements for the Application and Database on the Same Server on the Windows Platform
OS
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Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (recommended)
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Windows 2000 Server with SP4
Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4
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Database
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MySQL Max 3.23 (included)
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CPU
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Dual Processor Intel Xeon or equivalent, 3.0+ GHz
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Memory
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4 GB RAM
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Disk
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28 GB, Dual Channel RAID, Fast SCSI
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Network
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100 Mbps Fast Ethernet, full duplex
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Note When installing NCM on a Windows platform, Nmap 3.81 and WinPcap (Windows Packet Capture Library) version 3.1 are required for Nmap scanning when running the Detect Network Devices task.
NCM and LMS Co-residency Requirements
The following are the recommended requirements when you are enabling co-residency of NCM and CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS):
•Operating System on the Application Server: Microsoft Windows 2003
•Server Hardware: At least a Xeon (or a Dual Core) Processor with 8 GB of RAM.
