Virtual machine requirements for installing the Light Agent for Linux

To install and operate the Light Agent for Linux, the virtual machine must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:

• 1.5 GHz virtual processor
• 2 GB available disk space
• 2 GB available RAM
• Virtualized network interface with bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s

Software requirements for installation and operation of Light Agent for Linux:

• Perl interpreter: version 5.0 or later, (visit http://www.perl.org)
• The which utility
• Installed dmidecode package
• The procedure for remote installation of Light Agent for Linux requires that the sudo package is installed

Before installing Light Agent for Linux on a virtual machine managed by Citrix Hypervisor, the XenTools application must be installed.

The VMware Tools kit must be installed before installing the Light Agent for Linux on a virtual machine powered by a VMware ESXi hypervisor.

The Huawei Tools kit must be installed before installing the Light Agent for Linux on a virtual machine powered by a HUAWEI FusionCompute CNA hypervisor.

Before installing Light Agent for Linux on a virtual machine managed by Microsoft Windows Server (Hyper-V) hypervisor, an Integration Services package must be installed.

QEMU Guest Agent must be installed before installing Light Agent for Linux on a virtual machine managed by a KVM hypervisor (including those running on the OpenStack Platform, VK Cloud platform, TIONIX Cloud Platform, and Astra Linux Platform) or by an ALT Virtualization Server platform basic hypervisor.

One of the following guest server operating systems must be installed on the virtual machine to support the installation and operation of the Light Agent for Linux:

• Astra Linux Special Edition RUSB.10015-01 (regular update 1.7) (without support for capability-based access restriction and closed software environment modes)
• Astra Linux Special Edition RUSB.10015-16 (version 1) (regular update 1.6) (without support for capability-based access restriction and closed software environment modes)
• Astra Linux Special Edition RUSB.10015-01 (regular update 1.6) (without support for capability-based access restriction and closed software environment modes)
• Astra Linux Special Edition RUSB.10015-01 (regular update 1.5) (without support for capability-based access restriction and closed software environment modes)
• CentOS 8.0 and later (64-bit)
• CentOS 7.3 and later (64-bit)
• Debian GNU/Linux 10.1 or later (32/64-bit).
• Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 or later (32/64-bit)
• Oracle® Linux 8.0 and later (64-bit)
• Oracle Linux 7.3 and later (64-bit)

  Before installing Light Agent for Linux on a virtual machine running Oracle Linux, the tar archiver must be installed.

• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server 8.0 or later (64-bit).
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 and later (64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 (64-bit)
• Ubuntu® 20.04 LTS (64-bit).
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64-bit).
• ALT 8 SP (64-bit).
• Red OS 7.3 (64-bit).

Due to the limitations of the fanotify technology, Light Agent for Linux does not support the following file systems: autofs, aufs, binfmt_misc, cgroup, configfs, debugfs, devpts, fuse, fuse.gvfsd-fuse, gvfs, hpsa_fuse, hugetlbfs, mqueue, nfsd, proc, pstore, rpc_pipefs, securityfs, selinuxfs, sysfs.

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