Host Monitor Agent Requirements

The Host Monitor Agent has different requirements for installation, depending on the platform.

To install the Host Monitor Agent on the Windows platform, follow these requirements:

• Ensure that the Audit Vault Agent is running on the database server machine.

• Host Monitoring on Windows requires Npcap for capturing network traffic.

  • Npcap is automatically installed along with the agent installation. Installing Npcap removes any existing installation of Npcap or WinPcap from the Windows host machine.

• Ensure that the Windows target machine has the latest update of the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (MSVCRT.dll (*) or later) package from Microsoft installed.

• If a network firewall is present, allow communication on port range 2050 - 5200. This is required for communication between the database server and the Database Firewall.

  Allowing communication on port 7447 is necessary for the Audit Vault Agent to connect to the Audit Vault Server.

To install the Host Monitor Agent on a Linux, Unix, AIX, or Solaris platform, follow these requirements:

• Ensure that the Audit Vault Agent is running on the database server machine.

• Ensure that the latest version of the following packages from the operating system vendor are installed for the specific operating system version on the database server machine:

  • Libcap (for Linux hosts only)

  • LibPcap

• Ensure that gmake is installed for AIX database servers.

  For other Unix database server types (Linux, Unix, or Solaris), ensure that make is installed. This is required for the Host Monitor Agent to run successfully.

• If a network firewall is present, allow communication on port range 2050 - 5200. This is required for communication between the database server and the Database Firewall.

  Allowing communication on port 7447 is necessary for the Audit Vault Agent to connect to the Audit Vault Server.

• Ensure that the input output completion ports (IOCP) setting is available for IBM AIX on Power Systems (64-bit).

  It’s set to defined by default.

• Ensure that all directories in the path of the Host Monitor Agent install location have 755 as the permission bits, starting from the root directory.

  This is required because the Host Monitor Agent has to be installed in a root-owned location.

• Ensure that the Host Monitor Agent is installed by the root user.

Related Topics

• Behavior Changes, Deprecated, and Desupported Platforms and Features

See Also: Enabling and Using Host Monitoring for host monitoring instructions and prerequisites.