SCM 2023.3 System Requirements

Release date: July 25, 2023

SolarWinds strongly recommends that you install the SolarWinds Platform on a server that is neither public, nor internet-facing. To learn about best practices for configuring your SolarWinds Platform installation securely, see Secure Configuration for the SolarWinds Platform.

Server Configuration Monitor 2023.3 runs on the SolarWinds Platform and has the same base requirements as SolarWinds Platform 2023.3.

See the SolarWinds Platform 2023.3 requirements for details. For additional SCM-specific requirements, see below. For information about installing SCM, see the SCM installation guide.

• Monitoring with SCM
• Additional database space requirements
• More learning resources

For additional information on requirements and configurations, see the SolarWinds Platform Requirements.

Monitoring with SCM

• SCM 2023.3 supports monitoring on nodes running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and newer and Linux kernel 2.6.23 or newer.
• SCM requires read permission to the monitored path for all file, parsed file, and registry profile elements. It requires execute permission for scripts.

SCM uses the SHA1 algorithm to compute a hash code while detecting whether a configuration item has changed on Windows and Linux machines. Although SHA1 is not an approved algorithm in FIPS mode, it is not used as a security function in SCM. Therefore, its use in SCM does not violate Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 or the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP).