Recommended System Requirements

Observe the following system requirements to obtain optimum Control Manager Standard Edition performance:

General Recommendations

Hardware/Software Specification	Recommended Requirement
Network adapter	100Mbps, 32-bit, adapter for both the Control Manager server and managed product. Preferably one designed for bus mastering, direct memory access (DMA)
File system	NT File System (NTFS) partition
Monitor	VGA monitor capable of 1024 x 768 resolution with at least 256 colors.

Trend Micro recommends you do not install Trend Micro Control Manager on a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) on a servers with other Trend Micro products due to resource concerns.
Physical memory is a system resource � all applications on the server share it. Scale the memory with the processor; do not overpopulate with memory

The following are recommendations for a single Control Manager server and for a parent Control Manager server.

Control Manager 5.0 uploads all log information from OfficeScan servers, including all OfficeScan client logs.

Control Manager Server	Environment	Recommendations
Single	Number of: Control Manager agents: 1000 OfficeScan 8.0 clients: 2000 Total above: 2000	Intel Pentium III 600MHz or equivalent 2GB RAM SQL2005 Express (local)
Single/Child	Number of: Control Manager agents: 1500 OfficeScan 8.0 clients: 5000 Total above: 5000	Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent 2GB RAM SQL Server (local)
Parent	Number of: Control Manager agents: 10000 OfficeScan 8.0 clients:10000 Total above: 10000 Child Control Manager servers: 50
Single/Child	Number of: Control Manager agents: 2000 OfficeScan 8.0 clients: 10000* Total above: 10000	Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent 4GB RAM SQL Server (remote)
Parent	Number of: Control Manager agents: 20000 OfficeScan 8.0 clients:100000 Total above: 100000 Child Control Manager servers: 100
Single/Child	Number of: Control Manager agents: 5000 OfficeScan 8.0 clients: 10000 Total above: 15000	Intel Pentium 4 2GHz or equivalent 4GB RAM SQL Server (remote)
Parent	Number of: Control Manager agents: 50000 OfficeScan 8.0 clients: 200000 Total above: 200000 Child Control Manager servers: 200

The following are recommendations for the indicated network sizes for a single Control Manager server.

Number of managed products	CPU Specifications	RAM	Database Requirements
Less than 500 products	Intel Pentium III 600MHz	2GB	SQL2005 Express (2GB)
500 to 1,000 products	Intel Pentium III 600MHz	2GB	SQL2005 Express or MS SQL 2000 / 2005
Above 1,000 products	Intel Pentium III 1GHz	4GB	SQL2005 Express or MS SQL 2000 / 2005 Trend Micro recommends a dedicated connection between the Control Manager database and SQL server.