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System requirements

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Hardware requirements

Hardware requirements depend on the server role. The following minimum hardware requirements are required for installation:

Processor Intel/AMD x64 with 2 cores

2GB of RAM

700MB of free hard disk space

Glibc 2.17 or later

Linux OS kernel versions 3.10.0 and later

Any UTF-8 encoding locale


Supported operating systems

ESET Server Security for Linux (ESSL) has been tested and is supported on the latest minor releases of listed operating systems. Update your operating system before installing ESSL.

64-bit Operating System

Secure Boot supported

Note

RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

 

RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8

 

RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

 

CentOS 7

 

Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS

 

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS

 

Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS

 

Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

 

Debian 10

 

Debian 11

 

Debian 12

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15

 

Alma Linux 8

 

Alma Linux 9

 

Rocky Linux 8

 

Rocky Linux 9

 

Oracle Linux 8

(stock kernel only)

If the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is used, the kernel-uek-devel package must be installed manually. In this case, Secure Boot is not supported.

Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 does not support Secure Boot

Secure Boot is supported since version 2023.

ESSL should work on the most recent and frequently used open-source Linux distributions if the hardware requirements listed above are met, and software dependencies are not missing in the Linux distribution used.


important

The latest Linux kernel for Ubuntu Server 22.04 requires gcc-12 for kernel modules compilation. See our Knowledgebase article for more information on this issue.


note

Linux distributions with ELREPO kernel and AWS kernel are not supported.

RHEL with the "Protection Profile for General Purpose Operating Systems (OSPP)" is not supported.

 

Remote management via ESET PROTECT.


Supported browsers

ESSL Web interface works only in the desktop versions of following browsers:

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Microsoft Edge

Safari

If you experience display issues in ESSL Web interface, ensure that you use the latest version of the browsers listed above.


Network prerequisites

To ensure the proper functioning of the ESET Server Security for Linux allow the network prerequisites listed in the Knowledgebase article.


Supported filesystems

ESET Server Security for Linux (ESSL) has been tested and is supported on the filesystems below:

Filesystem

Local devices

Removable devices

Network

Btrfs

 

 

FAT

 

 

VFAT

 

exFAT

 

F2FS

 

 

ext4 (version 2, version 3)

 

JFS

 

 

NTFS

 

UDF

 

 

XFS

 

 

ZFS

 

 

EncFS

 

 

FUSE (snap, appimage)

 

 

tmpfs

 

 

NFS client (version 3, version 4)

 

 

SMB (GVfs, CIFS)

 

 

SSHFS