17Planning the installation
System requirements
Operating system requirements
Table 2-1 lists Symantec Critical System Protection component operating
system requirements:
Table 2-1 Operating system requirements
Component Operating system Service pack Kernel version
Management console Windows 2000 Professional/Server/
Advanced Server
SP4
Windows XP Professional SP1 or later
Windows Server™ 2003 Standard/
Enterprise 32-bit
Windows Server 2003 Standard/
Enterprise 64-bit
SP1, R2
Management server Windows Server 2003 Standard/
Enterprise 32-bit
SP1, R2
Windows Server 2003 Standard/
Enterprise x64
SP1, R2
Agent Windows 2000 Professional/Server/
Advanced Server
SP4 or later
Windows XP Professional SP1 or later
Windows Server 2003 Standard/
Enterprise x64
SP1, R2
Windows Server 2003 Standard/
Enterprise 32-bit
SP1, R2
Windows NT® Server 4, patch 6a
Sun™ Solaris™ 8.0/9.0/10.0
See “Solaris packages” on page 18.
32-bit and 64-bit kernel
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux ES 3.0
See “Linux kernel driver support” on
page 19.
2.4.21-20 (update 3,
released 2004-09)
2.4.21-27 (update 4,
released 2004-12)
2.4.21-32 (update 5,
released 2005-05)
2.4.21-37 (update 6,
released 2005-09)