PA Storage Monitor System Requirements

PA Storage Monitor has been designed to use as few system resources as possible. The goal is not to affect the server it is running on, and also not to affect any monitored servers.

System Requirements

Operating System

• This application can be installed on a physical or VM platform that has one of the following operating systems installed.
• Windows Client: 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11
• Windows Server: 2008 SP2, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022
• 32- and 64-bit operating systems can be monitored, though the software only installs on 64-bit versions of Windows

Software:

• .NET 4.6.2 or higher for report generation

Memory

• 50 - 500 MB of physical RAM for the monitoring process
• The amount of RAM needed will go up and down during the monitoring cycles. Every few minutes the monitoring service flushes unneeded memory to keep the process size small. RAM usage will increase when running certain data intensive reports, or if running a monitor that uses a large amount of data from the database. However, these increases will be temporary.

Disk Space

• 700 MB - 5 GB* of disk space
• The amount of required disk space varies widely based on the amount of data to store in the database. The program files are roughly 650 MB, and reports and log files are approximately 50 MB. A 'typical' installation (where the default monitors are used on a single computer) would use about 20 MB for the database files.
• *The File System Analyzer monitor increases the disk space needs significantly since it can catalog entire file systems.

CPU Usage

• You configure the target CPU usage

• The Settings dialog lets you specify a target CPU Usage %. In general the monitoring service will attempt to keep CPU usage at or below that level. Occasionally, when flushing data to the database or when running large reports, the CPU Usage can spike higher, but that will be temporary and should not have an impact on the system.

  In addition, certain long-running monitors will use low-priority threads so they will only use unneeded CPU cycles, and get pushed to the background immediately if 'real' work needs to be done by the system.

Hardware:

• The recommended hardware configurations for your version of Windows will be sufficient for PA Storage Monitor.