Installing HP-UX IPSec

HP-UX IPSec Product RequirementsHP-UX IPSec Product Requirements

Prior to installing the HP-UX IPSec product, check that your system can accommodate the following product requirements.

Disk Requirements

The total size of the disk space required for the HP-UX IPSec product is

112 Mbytes. Requirements for variable-length user files are listed below:

•Configuration database file (/var/adm/ipsec/config.db): minimum of 50 kbytes per policy file. Most configuration database files will be approximately 1 Mbyte or less. An extremely large configuration database (thousands of entries) may be as large as 5 Mbytes.

•Audit file: This file can grow very fast if Informative auditing is enabled. HP recommends 1 Mbyte for the Alerts and Errors level of logging, 5 Mbytes for the Warnings level, and 200 or more Mbytes for the Informative message level. Informative auditing could generate 3–5 Mbytes per hour. Audit files should be kept in a separate directory or file system. The default directory is: /var/adm/ipsec/.

Security Certificate Configuration Utility Requirements

If you are using security certificates for IKE authentication, you must use the ipsec_mgr configuration utility. The ipsec_mgr utility requires a graphical display device. This can be a graphics monitor, an X terminal display, a PC with X Server software installed, or a Linux workstation running an X Server.

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