BMC Defender File Integrity Monitor Adapter installation requirements

The BMC Defender FMON agent programs are non-invasive and can be installed on a variety of Windows platforms and operating systems. Administrator login is required to install the software. Specific system requirements of the BMC Defender Server is described as follows:

• Disk space— BMC Defender FIM Adapter has a small disk footprint of less than 0.5 Mbytes. The program should generally not be installed on a network drive. If possible, the program should be consistently installed in its default location of C:\installationDirectory, that might assist technical support personnel.
• CPU requirements— BMC Defender FIM Adapter makes minimal use of CPU and can co-exist with other server components and applications. The actual CPU requirements are typically much less than 1%, even under heavy load.
• TCP connectivity— BMC Defender FIM Adapter cannot be installed on a platform that does not have TCP connectivity. (This typically should not be a problem, but might occur in the certain evaluation and test scenarios.) The program works with any normal network interface card.
• Service ports— BMC Defender FIM Adapter agent programs require access to the UDP 514 port of the configured destination host, that might require modifications to firewalls and port blockers. Additionally, FMON agent programs listen at TCP 55515 for optional remote configuration requests.
• Other dependencies— BMC Defender FIM Adapter agent requires the Windows agent. The installer should first install the Windows agent before installing the BMC Defender FIM Adapter agent. Failure to do this results in an error message, prompting you first to install the Windows agent, when the BMC Defender FIM Adapter is installed.