Cisco WAE Server Requirements
You can install Cisco WAE on a server that meets the following requirements.
Operating System |
Software |
CPU |
Memory |
Hard Drive |
---|---|---|---|---|
Linux-x86_64 |
RHEL 8.4 with latest patches |
16+ Core |
64 GB |
Minimum: 500 GB Recommended: 1TB |
Important Notes
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If you use a hard disk with less than 2048 bytes physical sector size for data store filesystem, you may get the following error on startup:
Failed to initialize the system ..For the WAE Live database to functioned as designed, the recommended block size is equal to or greater than 2048 bytes for data store filesystem.
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Cisco WAE software is qualified on RHEL 8.4.
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Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.
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Modify the
/etc/security/limits.conf
file by adding or updating the following lines to make sure your hardware supports sufficient number of threads for starting poller:[user] soft stack 8192 [user] soft nproc 257805
Where
[user]
is the userid which starts the WAE process.Set the file descriptor limits:
[user] soft nofile 1000000 [user] hard nofile 1000000 # End of file
Note
Reboot the server after modifying the
limits.conf
file.