SAINT System Requirements

| # System Requirements Although SAINT has not been tested on every UNIX platform, it will run on most flavors of UNIX. SAINT is very much a work in progress, and development efforts are ongoing. SAINT is an excellent security and discovery tool, and will become more robust as the development process continues. Please remember: your feedback is crucial to our efforts to make SAINT all it can be, so please feel free to send any comments or questions you may have to saint@saintcorporation.com. Also, SAINT will become more portable as we expand our testing efforts to include different UNIX platforms. ### Operating systems Currently SAINT is known to work on the following Operating Systems: SunOS 4.1.3_U1 SunOS 5.3 - 5.6 (Solaris 2.3 - 2.6) IRIX 5.3 - 6.5.8 HP-UX 10.20 - 11.00 Linux FreeBSD 4 OpenBSD In addition to the list above, we believe that SAINT will also work on the following operating systems, though no formal testing has been done: Other SunOS versions Other IRIX versions Other HP-UX versions Other BSD types AIX System V Release 4 Ultrix Tru64 For a complete list of operating systems, try typing "`make`" at the UNIX prompt. ### Hardware platforms SAINT should run fine on any hardware platform running one of the operating systems listed above. ### Disk space SAINT itself only requires about 3 MB to compile and run. However, if PERL and a web browser are not already installed on the system, up to 70 MB of additional disk space could be required to install these packages. The exact requirement depends on the operating system type and the browser version. More space will also be required to install the optional utilities (NMAP and Samba) if they are to be used by SAINT. Of course, if the supplementary programs are already installed, it isn't necessary to reinstall them. ### Memory The amount of memory needed to properly run the SAINT program is dependent upon the number of hosts in the database or the number of hosts to be scanned when performing a SAINT evaluation. It should be stated that even a scan with minimal hosts requires a significant amount of memory. In the words of one SAINT developer, "SAINT is a real pig when it comes to memory". For a rough idea of what to expect, please see the lessons learned below: A scan comprising approximately 1500 hosts, with approximately 18000 facts in the facts file, required approximately 14 megabytes of memory on a SPARC 4/75 running SunOS 4.1.3 A scan comprising approximately 4700 hosts, with about 150000 facts, required almost 35 megabytes of memory on an Indigo 2 platform Needless to say, swapping is very painful if you don't have enough memory. ### Other software tools required and where you can get them We realize that the supplementary software packages needed to run SAINT may not be pre-installed on the potential SAINT platform. To make life a bit easier, we have provided the links below to simplify the search for these supplementary packages: PERL Netscape NMAP (optional) Samba utilities (optional) Back to the Introductory TOC/Index