This section describes possible configurations of the OVA image and requirements for its import.
The supplied OVA image of a virtual machine with PT ISIM Overview Center runs on Debian 9.13 AMD64. The OVA image includes the following virtual machine configurations:
- "4 CPUs and 8192 MB RAM. Acceptable-performance configuration" is an acceptable configuration for analyzing traffic at a rate of up to 60 Mbps.
- "8 CPUs and 16384 MB RAM. Normal-performance configuration" is a recommended configuration for analyzing traffic at a rate of up to 100 Mbps.
You can use the following hypervisors to import the OVA image:
- VMware Workstation 14.1.5, 15.0.0, 15.0.2, 15.5.1
- VMware vSphere 6.0.0, 6.5.0, 6.7.0
- Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.38, 5.2.26, 6.0.4, 6.0.14
You can select a configuration only in VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. If you import the OVA image using Oracle VM VirtualBox, the recommended configuration is selected automatically.
The server on which you want to deploy the OVA image must be capable of allocating the virtual machine resources sufficient for the acceptable configuration. The virtual machine disk space is limited to 300 GB.
When the virtual machine is started, its basic parameters (amount of RAM, disk space, number of cores, and CPU frequency) are displayed in the command-line interface. If the virtual machine parameters are lower than the configuration of the image, a system incident is recorded in PT ISIM Overview Center.
PT ISIM Overview Center requires at least two network interfaces: a service interface to provide access to the product via the web interface and over SSH, and an industrial interface to receive a copy of traffic of the analyzed network. The industrial interface must be included in the bond0 virtual interface and must operate in promiscuous mode.
It is recommended that you use Google Chrome 88 or later or Mozilla Firefox 84 or later to work with the web interface of the product.