System requirements
Quick links: Supported operating systems, Supported browsers, Supported filesystems
Hardware requirements
Hardware requirements depend on the server role. The following minimum hardware requirements are required for installation:
•Processor Intel/AMD x64
•700MB of free hard disk space
•Glibc 2.17 or later
•Linux OS kernel versions 3.10.0 and later
•en_US.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 |
SELinux Support |
Note |
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RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 |
✔ |
✔ |
ESSL SELinux module policy installation requires an installed selinux-policy-devel package. To start the OS without ESSL SELinux module, use the eset_selinux=0 kernel parameter during OS boot. |
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 |
✔ |
✔ |
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CentOS 7 |
✔ |
✔ |
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Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS |
✔ |
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS |
✔ |
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Debian 10 |
✔ |
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Debian 11 |
✔ |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 |
✔ |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 |
✔ |
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Oracle Linux 8 |
✔ (stock kernel only) |
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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 |
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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.
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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.
Supported filesystems
ESET Server Security for Linux (ESSL) has been tested and is supported on the filesystems below:
Filesystem |
Local devices |
Removable devices |
Network |
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Btrfs |
✔ |
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FAT |
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✔ |
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VFAT |
✔ |
✔ |
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exFAT |
✔ |
✔ |
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F2FS |
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✔ |
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ext4 (version 2, version 3) |
✔ |
✔ |
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JFS |
✔ |
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NTFS |
✔ |
✔ |
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UDF |
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✔ |
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XFS |
✔ |
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ZFS |
✔ |
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EncFS |
✔ |
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FUSE (snap, appimage) |
✔ |
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tmpfs |
✔ |
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NFS client (version 3, version 4) |
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✔ |
SMB (GVfs, CIFS) |
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✔ |
SSHFS |
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✔ |