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System requirements
Server requirements:
- Physical server or virtual machine (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox, Xen, Google Cloud Compute, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure)
Supported operating systems:
We offer production support only for x86_64 hardware platform.
- Ubuntu Linux 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 (recommended) LTS
- Debian Linux 11, 12
- RHEL based platforms (CentOS, AlmaLinux, RockyLinux) 7, 8, 9
Hardware requirements:
- Memory: 16Gb
- CPUs: 8 cores (SSE 4.2 required, AVX recommended)
- 150 GB of hard drive space or more (SSD or NVME recommended)
If you run network with large number of active IPv4 and IPv6 hosts (100k+) we strongly recommend preferring CPUs with higher single core performance and frequency.
If you want to use port mirror mode you will need:
- Additional 4 physical CPU cores per port
- High performance network card. For 10G capacity we can guarantee performance only for Mellanox cards Connect-X 4, 5, 6 and newer models.
And you need to have reliable network connectivity (IPv4 is required, IPv6 is recommended) to following hosts over port 443:
- license.fastnetmon.com
- repo.fastnetmon.com
- install.fastnetmon.com
- stats.fastnetmon.com
If you use machine behind NAT/CGNAT, please keep your external IPv4 address persistent. Even if your machine has no global IPv6 connectivity you must have IPv6 enabled locally as we use it for inter-process interactions.
FastNetMon can work in IPv6 only environment but you have to keep direct connectivity without any kind of address translation.
If you operate ARM64 based infrastructure you can try experimental support for ARM64.
Install steps
Please prepare freshly installed physical server or virtual machine. Then please login with ssh and run following commands:
wget https://install.fastnetmon.com/installer -Oinstaller sudo chmod +x installer sudo ./installer
As alternative option you can use our pre-created virtual machine images for variety of hypervisors.
If you prefer to avoid installing MongoDB as configuration database, please add following flag to installer to install FerretDB with SQLite backend instead: -ferretdb.
During this process FastNetMon will assign license to your hardware, please carefully review licensing server guide to understand licensing process better.
Next steps
For initial configuration of FastNetMon for your network please read FastNetMon quick start after this guide. If you want to enable visual traffic dashboards you will need few additional steps FastNetMon Visual Traffic.
Cloud deployment option
In addition to on-premise install, you can easily deploy FastNetMon using single click install on Digital Ocean or Google Compute Engine. In addition we offer container friendly shipping options: Docker.