Cisco WAE Installation Requirements

Cisco WAE requirements vary depending on which components are installed together. This section provides general guidelines and minimum requirements for individual components installed on a single server, unless otherwise specified.

This section contains the following topics:

Cisco WAE Server Requirements

You can install Cisco WAE on a server that meets the following requirements.

Operating System

Software

CPU

Memory

Hard Drive

Linux-x86_64

CentOS and RHEL 7.5 with latest patches

8+ cores

64 GB

50 GB

Important Notes

  • Cisco WAE software is qualified on CentOS 7.5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5.

  • Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.

  • Modify the /etc/security/limits.conf file by adding or updating the following lines to make sure your hardware supports sufficient number of threads for starting poller: 

    [user] soft stack 8192
[user] soft nproc 257805
[user] soft nofile 1000000

    Where [user] is the userid which starts the WAE process.

Required Software Packages

Software

Version

JDK/JRE

Oracle or OpenJDK 1.8.0_102

Note 

Java environment variables must be configured correctly and JRE_HOME must point to a valid JRE/JDK 1.8 installation. Download the JRE package from the Oracle distribution site. For example:

  • Linux:

    Enter the following command:

    admin@system1 ~ # export JRE_HOME=<JDK/JRE_installation_path>

Perl

5.16.3

fontconfig

2.10.95

Python

2.7.5

python-paramiko. noarch

1.16.1

python-lxml

3.2.1

python-requests

2.18.4

redhat-lsb

4.0.7

This is required for the License Server. For more information, see the "WAE Design Floating License Server" chapter in the Cisco WAE Design GUI Installation Guide.

Supervisor

3.1.4 and above

NetFlow Requirements

NetFlow Collection - (Exclusive) Memory size and CPU per server

Centralized NetFlow

(WAE YANG runtime server)

Memory

CPU

Collector Server

32 GB

flow_get

4 GB

TOTAL

36 GB

8+ Cores

Distributed NetFlow

(Server where the agent resides)

Memory

CPU

Collector Server

32 GB

flow_cluster_agent

4 GB

TOTAL

36 GB

8+ Cores

Distributed NetFlow

(WAE YANG runtime server)

Memory

CPU

flow_cluster_broker

2 GB

flow_cluster_master

2 GB

flow_cluster_ias

flow_cluster_dmd

4 GB

TOTAL

8 GB

8+ Cores

Note

  • One flow collection server is required per 100 Mbps of flow export bandwidth.

  • Only English Linux is supported.

  • Qualified on CentOS 7.5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5.

  • Flow collection requires Linux Kernel 2.6.32 or greater.

  • The memory requirement listed above per collection server instance is based on the assumption of an approximate figure of 100 Mbit/s of NetFlow traffic.

Optical Collection Agents

Vendor

Supported Node Version

Software

Cisco

Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 2000 Series Routers, Releases 10.7, 10.8, 10.9

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 2.2 Maintenance Pack 1 Point Patch 1

Cisco Transport Controller (CTC)

Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 2000 Series Routers, Releases 10.7, 10.8

CTC plug-in packaged with WAE

Collection from Network Service Orchestrator

Software/Driver

Version

IOS NED

6.7

IOS-XR NED

7.6

Junos NED

4.1

Network Service Orchestrator

4.7.1

Traffic Engineering

Contact your Cisco WAE representative.

Scale Support

Parameters

Scale

Total number of Network Devices

4000

Total number of Interfaces

100000

Total number of Demands

100000

Total number of Policies (SR or RSVP or Both)

5000

Cisco WAE Design Requirements

WAE Design is a 64-bit installation on all supported operating systems.

Operating System

Software

CPU

Memory

Linux-x86_64

CentOS and RHEL 7.5 with latest patches

Intel or AMD 2+ GHz

Minimum: 8 GB

Recommended: 16 GB

Windows (64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Edition

Windows 10

Intel or AMD 2+ GHz

Minimum: 8 GB

Recommended: 16 GB

macOS x86_64

10.8.5 to 10.13.4

Intel or AMD 2+ GHz

Minimum: 8 GB

Recommended: 16 GB

Software

Version

JDK/JRE

Configuration parsing inside WAE Design requires JRE Version 1.8.0_102 (64-bits) downloaded from the Oracle distributed site. No other JRE version, variant, or source is supported.

  • Windows (64-bit):

    • Set JRE_HOME (Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables) to point to the JRE installation path. Typically, the path is C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_102.

  • Linux:

    • The session that launches WAE Design should include in its environment:

      JRE_HOME=<JRE_installation_path>

  • Mac:

    • Add the following line into ~/.bash_profile:

      export JRE_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/jre_home -v 1.8)

      For MacOS X 10.12 or later, also add following line in ~/.bash_profile:

      launchctl setenv JRE_HOME `/usr/libexec/jre_home -v 1.8`

Perl

A Perl (5.10+) installation is required for certain WAE Design features.

Python

A Python installation is required for certain WAE Design features. See Required Software Packages.

Important Notes

  • A standalone WAE Design system does not require the use of WAE Collector.

  • Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.

WAE Live Requirements


Note

WAE Live must be installed on a separate server than the WAE server.

Requirement

~1000 Node Network

~2000 Node Network

Supported operating system

CentOS 7.5

CentOS 7.5

CPU

8 cores, 16 threads

16 cores, 32 threads

Memory

24 GB

48 GB

Disk speed

200 MBs

320 MBs

Disk size

3 TB

10 TB

Number of network objects

100,000

500,000

Note

  • Only Linux distributions available in English are supported.

  • Other CentOS Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions should work, but has not been tested.

Kernel Parameters

Kernel Parameters

Value

SHMALL

4294967296

SHMMAX

4398046511104

SHMMNI

4096

SEMMNS

32000

SEMMSL

250

SEMOPM

32

Maximum number of file descriptors

65535

Supported Web Browsers

Browser

Version

Google Chrome

62 or later

Firefox

56 or later

Internet Explorer

Note 

Not supported on WAE Live or WAE Coordinated Maintenance.

11 or later

Cisco WAE Ports

Port

Protocol

Type

Description

*:4000

UDP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server

*:8080

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server

*:8443

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server, Live Server

2022 - 2023

TCP

Listening and outgoing

Cisco WAE Server

*:2024

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server

4569

TCP

Listening and outgoing

Cisco WAE Server

4570

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Server HA

8080

TCP

Outgoing

XTC collection

127.0.0.1:9901 - 9902

TCP

Listening

SNMP polling

164

UDP

Outgoing

SNMP-based NIMOs

22

TCP

Outgoing

Collection via Telnet

23

TCP

Outgoing

Collection via SSH

*:2181

TCP

Listening

Message broker

*:9092 - 9094

TCP

Listening

Message broker

*:9000

TCP

Listening

Optical plug-in

8161

TCP

Listening

NetFlow JMS OOB

61616

TCP

Listening

NetFlow JMS IB

9090

TCP

Listening

NetFlow HTTP

2100

UDP

Listening

NetFlow

179

TCP

Listening

NetFlow BGP

*:8843

TCP

Listening

Cisco WAE Coordinated Maintenance (standalone or as part of WAE Server)

See "Configuring License Server Ports" in the Cisco WAE Design GUI Installation Guide.

TCP

Listening

License Server