Systems Management Server Requirements

The following lists the basic requirements for using Microsoft Systems Management Server:

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.51 or later.
Microsoft SQL Server version 4.21 or later.
A 486/66 MHz or higher processor.
32 MB of memory (recommended).
100 MB of available hard disk space (on the system disk).
A CD-ROM drive supported by Windows NT Server.
A network adapter.
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device (a mouse is recommended).

Microsoft SMS supports the following connection protocols and clients.

Supported protocols and clients



Connection protocols:
Asynchronous IPX/SPX ISDN NetBEUI	Remote Access Service (RAS) SNA TCP/IP X.25


Clients:
Apple Macintosh System 7 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Ultrix DEC VMS HP-UX IBM AIX IBM OS/2 version 1.x or 2.x	MS-DOS 5.0 or later Sun Solaris Windows 3.1 or later Windows NT 3.1 or later Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or later Windows 95 and Windows 98

(Many of the above clients may find their support though third-party add-ons.)

There are a variety of networking architectures that are supported by SMS. The clients that are supported by SMS are dependent on the network architecture as well. For a detailed list and the integration/interoperability capabilities see Appendix B of the Microsoft Systems Management Server Getting Started Guide.

The following table lists the typical requirements for sites in an SMS hierarchy, based on an installation of up to 1000 computers. These requirements are grouped according to how each server is used. Notice that all of the servers must be Windows NT Servers running on a Windows NT file system (NTFS) partition.

Systems Management Server servers

Server and processor type	RAM	Disk space	Recommendations


Central site server:
Intel 486/66 Intel Pentium DEC Alpha	32 MB – 96 MB	1 GB	A high-performance computer is recommended due to the heavy load placed on the central site computer by Microsoft SMS and SQL Server.


Primary or secondary site server:
Intel 486/66 Intel Pentium DEC Alpha	24 MB	50 MB – 100 MB	28 MB of RAM is required if SQL Server is on the same computer as the primary site server.


SQL Server:
Intel 486/66 Intel Pentium DEC Alpha	20 MB	Varies	28 MB of RAM is required if SQL Server is on the same computer as the primary site server. Storage requirements depend on the size of the installation.