Before you install or upgrade a Sensor Gateway on your Linux machine, your system should comply with the following requirements.

Important: Carbon Black recommends that you set up your system with the Sensor Gateway appliance. Sensor Gateway for Linux and the HA capabilities are going to be deprecated soon.

Hardware Requirements

Sensor Gateway on Linux VM/Physical server Requirements
Memory 4 GB+
Storage 100 GB
CPU 8 Core
Note:
  • To install one Sensor Gateway in high availability (HA) mode, you must provision two machines with the above requirements.
  • To install two Sensor Gateways in HA mode, you must provision four machines with the above requirements.

Software Requirements

Component Supported Versions
Sensor Gateway for Linux 1.0, 1.1 1.2
Carbon Black sensor for Windows 3.8.0.684 and above 3.9.2.2698 and above
Carbon Black sensor for Linux 2.13.2.997598 and above 2.15.0.1879374 and above
Ubuntu 18+ LTS
Oracle Linux v7+
Docker 20.10+
Optional: Keepalived 1.3.9+
Optional: OpenSSL Latest version