Management Console

The following minimum requirements are recommended for a Longitude Management Console install:

• Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2008 Server, 32 or 64 bit
• 2.4GHz P4 or Xeon processor
• 2GB Main memory
• 5 GB free disk space for the Longitude installation binaries
• 10 GB free disk for 100 managed devices/year.
• 100mb Ethernet Adapter

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Hardware requirements vary based on the number of computers that Longitude will be monitoring. To monitor larger numbers of managed devices (>250), we recommend:

Unfortunately the Management Console is not compatible with Linux operating systems. However an agent can be installed on many distributions of Linux.

If you have installed the Longitude Management Station on a new server, you can transfer the settings and data from the old server. The sequence of events for the migration is:

1. Upgrade the existing Longitude installation if needed. See How do I upgrade Longitude? for details.
2. Backup the existing Longitude installation. See kb55: How do I backup my Longitude server

If you have installed the Longitude Management Station on a new server, you can transfer the settings and data from the old server. The sequence of events for the migration is:

1. Upgrade the existing Longitude installation if needed. See How do I upgrade Longitude? for details.
2. Backup the existing Longitude installation. See kb55: How do I backup my Longitude server

Windows XP is not supported for the Longitude Management Console due to the limited number of database and network connections allowed by XP. We have found that it does often work in test environments, though.