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Environment Requirements

Software and hardware requirements to run Boardgent Network Scanner

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Written by Support Team
Updated over 3 years ago

Server Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows 8.1

  • Windows 10

  • Windows Server 2012

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Ubuntu

  • Linux, Red Hat 32 bit - Enterprise Linux

  • Linux, Red Hat 64 bit (Intel Enterprise Linux)

  • Linux, Red Hat 32 bit- Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform / Server

  • Linux, Red Hat 64 bit (Intel®64) - Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform / Server

Hardware minimum requirements

  • 8GB RAM

  • Processor: 2.30GHz Dual-core

  • Architecture: 32-bit or 64-bit

Linux Additional Software Requirements

Linux servers need to have installed the following packages to discover devices:

  • net-tools.

  • smbclient.

Client Requirements

Windows Additional Requirements

These are the ports required to scan Windows devices with Boardgent Network Scanner:

  • Port 389 to scan devices in an Active Directory with LDAP.

  • Port 636 to scan devices in an Active Directory with LDAPs.

  • Port 445 (SMB port) to scan devices with an IP address range

Linux Additional Software Requirements

Linux clients need to have installed the following packages to be discovered by Boardgent Network Discovery:

  • openssh-server running on port 22.

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