System Requirements

Read this section to learn more about the Cygna Auditor and its database server system requirements. Depending on your company size and the average number of changes recorded per day, the requirements can vary significantly. Use the metrics below as a general guideline and consider scaling your Cygna Auditor infrastructure if needed:

Distributed Deployment—Medium and Enterprise Environments

Single Server Deployment—Small Businesses and PoC

Distributed Deployment—Medium and Enterprise Environments

For medium and enterprise environments, Cygna Labs recommends distributed configuration with two servers.

Cygna Auditor Application Server

Make sure the computer where you plan to install Cygna Auditor (application server) meets the following hardware and software requirements and has all necessary software components and roles enabled.

COMPONENT	REQUIREMENTS
Hardware	CPU: Any modern processor with 4 cores RAM: 4 GB (minimum), 8 GB (recommended) HDD: 100 MB
Operating system	Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022
Server roles and features	Group Policy Management Web Server (IIS): Microsoft IIS 8.5 or above, including Windows Authentication, ASP.NET 4.8 .Net Framework: Microsoft .Net Framework 4.8, including ASP.NET 4.8 Note: Depending on the OS, you might need to install ASP.NET manually.
Additional software	Any modern browser, preferably Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

Database Server

Review the system requirements for the database server.

COMPONENT	REQUIREMENTS
Hardware	CPU: Any modern processor with 4 cores RAM: 8 GB (minimum), 16 GB (recommended) HDD: 2 GB (minimum). For better performance, adjust your hardware configuration based on the number of changes Cygna Auditor collects per day. The more change records are collected and stored in a database, the more impact on your database server. The disk space required for the audit data can grow significantly over time.
Operating system	Any modern OS provided it supports installation of Microsoft SQL Server
Database	SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2017 SQL Server 2019 SQL Server 2022 Standard and Enterprise editions are supported. Note that Express edition is only suitable for the product evaluation due to database size limitation. Cygna Labs recommends opting for Standard edition.

COMPONENT

REQUIREMENTS

Hardware

CPU: Any modern processor with 4 cores
RAM: 8 GB (minimum), 16 GB (recommended)
HDD: 2 GB (minimum).

For better performance, adjust your hardware configuration based on the number of changes Cygna Auditor collects per day. The more change records are collected and stored in a database, the more impact on your database server. The disk space required for the audit data can grow significantly over time.

Operating system

Any modern OS provided it supports installation of Microsoft SQL Server

Database

SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2022

Standard and Enterprise editions are supported. Note that Express edition is only suitable for the product evaluation due to database size limitation. Cygna Labs recommends opting for Standard edition.

Single Server Deployment—Small Businesses and PoC

For smaller businesses as well PoC deployments, you can opt for a single server deployment. In this case, both Cygna Auditor application server and database server will reside on the same server.

COMPONENT	REQUIREMENTS
Hardware	CPU: Any modern processor with 4 cores RAM: 12 GB (minimum), 16 GB (recommended) HDD: 4 GB For better performance, adjust your hardware configuration based on the number of changes Cygna Auditor collects per day. The more change records are collected and stored in a database, the more impact on your database server. The disk space required for the audit data can grow significantly over time.
Operating system	Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022
Server roles and features	Group Policy Management Web Server (IIS): Microsoft IIS 8.5 or above, including Windows Authentication, ASP.NET 4.8 .Net Framework: Microsoft .Net Framework 4.8, including ASP.NET 4.8 Note: Depending on the OS, you might need to install ASP.NET manually.
Database	SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2017 SQL Server 2019 SQL Server 2022 Standard and Enterprise editions are supported. Note that Express edition is only suitable for the product evaluation due to database size limitation. Cygna Labs recommends opting for Standard edition.
Additional software	Any modern browser, preferably Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

Note: For more information about Cygna Auditing & Security Suite (former PowerBroker Management Suite), including system requirements, installation procedures, and configuration steps, please refer to CA&SS documentation.