Cisco WAE Installation Requirements

Cisco WAE requirements vary depending on which components are installed together. This section provides general guidelines and minimum requirements for individual components installed on a single server, unless otherwise specified.

This section contains the following topics:

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

Centos/RHEL 8.1 with latest patches

16+ Core

64 GB

Minimum: 500 GB

Recommended: 1TB

Important Notes

  • Cisco WAE software is qualified on CentOS/RHEL 8.1. Cisco WAE VM is compatible with the ESXi versions which support RHEL 8.1.

  • Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.

  • 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.

  • In case of VM, there is no specific requirement for resource allocation in terms of provisioning or reservation, as this is not an OVA based installation. The provisioning and reservation depend on the customer environment and network.

Required Software Packages

Software

Version

JDK/JRE

OpenJDK 11.0.7 64-bit

Note

 

If multiple versions of Java are installed on the setup, set JAVA_HOME/JRE_HOME to Java 11 in Environment section of the wae.ini file.

Perl

5.16.3

fontconfig

2.13.1

Python

3.6.x

Note

 

/usr/bin/python3 must point to the installed python.

python3-paramiko. noarch

2.7.2

python3-lxml

4.6.2

python3-requests

2.20.0

redhat-lsb

4.1

This is required for the License Server. For more information, see the "WAE Design Floating License Server" chapter in the Cisco WAE Design GUI Installation Guide.

Supervisor

4.2.1

Which

2.21

ncurses-compat-libs

6.1.7

Note

python3-paramiko, python3-lxml, python3-requests and supervisor must be installed after adding epel-release repository.

NetFlow Requirements

NetFlow Collection - (Exclusive, apart from WAE server requirements) Memory size and CPU per server

Centralized NetFlow

(Server where snapshot resides)

Memory

CPU

pmacct

32 GB

flow_cluster_broker

2 GB

flow_cluster_controller

2 GB

flow_cluster_agent

8 GB

flow_collector_ias

flow_collector_dmd

 8GB

TOTAL

52 GB

8+ Cores

Distributed NetFlow

(Server where the agent resides)

Memory

CPU

pmacct

32 GB

flow_cluster_agent

8 GB

TOTAL

40 GB

8+ Cores

Distributed NetFlow

(Server where the snapshot resides)

Memory

CPU

flow_cluster_broker

2 GB

flow_cluster_controller

2 GB

flow_cluster_ias

flow_cluster_dmd

8 GB

TOTAL

12 GB

8+ Cores

Note

  • One flow collection server (pmacct) is required per 100 Mbps of flow export bandwidth.

  • Only English Linux is supported.

  • Flow collection requires Linux Kernel 2.6.32 or greater.

  • The memory requirement listed above per collection server instance is based on the assumption of an approximate figure of 100 Mbit/s of NetFlow traffic.

Optical Collection Agents

Vendor

Supported Node Version

Software

Cisco

Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 2000 Series Routers, Releases 11.1, 11.2

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 5.1.2

Collection from Network Service Orchestrator

Software/Driver

Version

IOS NED

6.66.1

IOS-XR NED

7.30.1

Junos NED

4.6.17

Network Service Orchestrator

5.4.2

Traffic Engineering

Contact your Cisco WAE representative.

Scale Support

Parameters

Scale

Total number of Network Devices

3000

Total number of Interfaces

30000

Total number of Demands

100000

Total number of Policies (SR or RSVP or Both)

2000

Cisco WAE Design Requirements

WAE Design is a 64-bit installation on all supported operating systems.

Operating System

Software

CPU

Memory

Linux-x86_64

Centos/RHEL 8.1 with latest patches

Minimum: 8 Cores

Recommended: 16+ Cores

Minimum: 16GB

Recommended: 64GB

Windows (64-bit)

Windows 2008

Windows 10

Minimum: 8 Cores

Recommended: 16+ Cores

Minimum: 16GB

Recommended: 64GB

macOS x86_64

10.8.5 to 11.6

Minimum: 8 Cores

Recommended: 16+ Cores

Minimum: 16GB

Recommended: 64GB

Important Notes

  • A standalone WAE Design system does not require the use of WAE Collector.

  • Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.

  • A Perl (5.10+) installation is required for some WAE features. See Required Software Packages.

  • A Python installation is required for some WAE features. See Required Software Packages.

  • FlexLM license: For more information, see Cisco WAE Design GUI Installation Guide.

  • Only English Linux is supported.

WAE Live Requirements


Note

WAE Live must be installed on a separate server than the WAE server.

Requirement

~1000 Node Network

~2000 Node Network

Supported operating system

Centos/RHEL 8.1

Centos/RHEL 8.1

CPU

8 cores, 16 threads

16 cores, 32 threads

Memory

24 GB

48 GB

Disk speed

200 MBs

320 MBs

Disk size

3 TB

10 TB

Number of network objects

100,000

500,000

Note

  • Only English Linux is supported.

  • Other CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions should work, but are not officially supported.

Kernel Parameters

Kernel Parameters

Value

SHMALL

4294967296

SHMMAX

4398046511104

SHMMNI

4096

SEMMNS

32000

SEMMSL

250

SEMOPM

32

Maximum number of file descriptors

65535

Supported Web Browsers

Browser

Version

Google Chrome

62 or later

Firefox

56 or later

Cisco WAE Ports

Port

Protocol

Type

Description

*:8080

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server

*:8443

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server, Live Server

2022 - 2023

TCP

Listening and outgoing

Cisco WAE Server

*:2024

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server

4569

TCP

Listening and outgoing

Cisco WAE Server

4570

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server HA

8080

TCP

Outgoing

XTC collection

164

UDP

Outgoing

SNMP-based NIMOs

22

TCP

Outgoing

Collection via Telnet

23

TCP

Outgoing

Collection via SSH

*:2181

TCP

Listening

Message broker

*:9092 - 9094

TCP

Listening

Message broker

8443

TCP

Listening and outgoing

Cisco WAE Optical EPNM Agent

8161

TCP

Listening

NetFlow JMS OOB

61616

TCP

Listening

NetFlow JMS IB

9090

TCP

Listening

NetFlow HTTP

2100

UDP

Listening

NetFlow

179

TCP

Listening

NetFlow BGP

*:8843

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Coordinated Maintenance (standalone or as part of WAE Server)