System Requirements

This article is a single point of reference for system requirements for the agent based clients, and the agentless scanner VM. See the Getting Started guide for detailed instructions.

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Agent-based System Requirements

All of these will require outbound network access to *.codacloud.net

Windows

Minimum OS: Windows 7 SP1/Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Disk Space Required: 500 MB

Windows Management Instrumentation service enabled and running.

macOS

Minimum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or newer

Disk Space Required: 200 MB

Linux

Minimum OS:

  • Ubuntu 18.04 or newer
  • Debian 11 or newer
  • SUSE SLES 12 SP5 / openSUSE Leap 42 or newer

Disk Space Required: 200 MB

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Agentless (Internal Scanner)

The Agentless Scanner VM can be set up as either a cloud-based VM in your Azure or AWS environment. See the Getting Started guide for detailed instructions. The VM can also be set up as an on-prem VM in any of the supported virtualization platforms:

  • VMWare Fusion/Workstation Player/Workstation Pro 14+ (VMDK and OVA)
  • Microsoft Hyper-V
  • QEMU

Minimum Hardware Requirements:

2 CPU cores, 8GB RAM and 80GB storage.

Network Requirements:

  • If SSL inspection is enabled on your network, you will also need to create an exception rule for the Agentless Scanner VM.
  • The Agentless Scanner VM needs access to the following external URLs and ports:

Destination

Port

Protocol

Encrypted

Purpose

https://update.codacloud.net

443

HTTPS

Yes

Detect Automated Updates (optional, highly recommended)

https://sentry.codacloud.net

443

HTTPS

Yes

Detect Alerting Service (optional, highly recommended)

https://<ConsoleURL>

443

HTTPS

Yes

Detect - Console Connectivity (mandatory)

<ConsoleURL>

5671

5672

SSL

Yes

Footprint IS - Console Connectivity; Data channel for scanner communication to the cloud console (mandatory)

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