# System Requirements

Unfortunately SARA isn't as portable as we would like it to be, but it still will run on a fairly large number of Un*x, Mac OS/X, and Windows (using coLinux) machines,. One of the main problems we had is that for it to do all of the tasks that we wanted and to actually be able to release it within any reasonable time frame, we had to both rely on many other publically available tools and forego much of our usual testing methodologies. Still under development, and most often used by us as a research and discovery tool, it will become more robust and portable as we get feedback and are able to test it on more platforms ourselves.

### Operating systems

Currently SARA is known to work on the following Operating Systems:

- SunOS 4.1.3_U1
- SunOS 5.3-5.10
- Irix 5.3-6.5
- Most Linux
- Most BSD
- Windows 200x/XP with coLinux
- MAC OS/X

### Hardware platforms

SARA has been tested with the following machines:

- All Sun platforms
- All SGI Platforms
- All Intel platforms from i486

However, it should run on quite a few more; The configuration program, configure will attempt to set all the parameters to build under a specific enviroment. You do not need to run configure for coLinux distributions.

### Disk space

Approximately 20 megabytes of total space is needed to install all of the supplementary packages and the SARA program. The bulk of this is due to the other software packages, chiefly Mosaic or netscape (5.5 MB or 2.5 MB on a sun) and perl5 (10 MB); SARA itself takes up about two megabytes of space, including the documentation. If the supplementary programs are already installed, it isn't necessary to reinstall them. For coSARA, you will need about 120 MBytes for the text-based coLinux distribution and 250 MBytes for the X-based coLinux distribution.

### Memory

Memory is another issue - this is very dependent on how many hosts you're scanning in or are in your database, but rest assured, SARA is a real pig when it comes to memory. From our experiences:

With approximately 1500 hosts scanned, with approximately 18000 facts in the facts file took about 14 megabytes of memory on a SPARC 4/75 running SunOS 4.1.3.

With approximately 4700 hosts scanned, with about 150000 facts, it took up almost 35 megabytes of memory on an Indigo 2.

Needless to say, swapping is very painful if you don't have enough memory.

### Other software tools required and where you can get them

Although all of it is widely and freely available on the Internet, on a wide number of sites, here are some easy places to find perl, mosaic, and netscape:

- Perl, version 5.xxx
- Mozilla Firefox
- Netscape, most versions

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