Requirements for private synthetic locations
Make sure the machine you'll use for your private location complies with the following requirements. Note that synthetic-enabled ActiveGate has more demanding hardware and system requirements than a regular Environment or Cluster ActiveGate.
Operating system requirements
A freshly installed ActiveGate can run your private synthetic monitors on the following operating systems (both HTTP and browser monitors).
Windows
| Windows OS | Versions |
|---|---|
| Windows Server | 2016, 2019 |
Unsupported Windows versions for testing purposes only
If you only want to test private synthetic on a non-production machine, for example your own desktop, you can install synthetic-enabled ActiveGates on unsupported Windows versions, such as Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012.
Antivirus software on Windows
We don't support synthetic-enabled ActiveGates on Windows machines that have antivirus software installed. The antivirus software may block the browser used to run the monitors. The bundled browser is located at <ActiveGate-installation-dir>\synthetic\Chrome-bin\chrome.exe. If you experience issues with a private location based on a host that has antivirus software installed, check if the software blocks the bundled browser and whitelist the browser if necessary.
Linux
| Linux distribution | Versions |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7.x |
| Ubuntu | 16.04 |
| CentOS | 7.x |
Linux dependencies
On Linux, you have to manually manage the dependencies required by the synthetic engine. ActiveGate is backward compatible with earlier Chromium versions. See Create a private synthetic location for a detailed procedure of installing the dependencies.
| ActiveGate version | Maximum Chromium version |
|---|---|
| 1.169 to 1.181 | 73 |
| 1.183 to 187 | 78 |
| 1.189+ | 79 |
Hardware requirements
Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates should meet the following hardware requirements depending on the number of tests executed per hour.
| XS (2 vCPU)1 | S (4 vCPU) | M (8 vCPU) | L (16 vCPU) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min free disk | 20 GB | 25GB | 30GB | 40GB |
| Min RAM | 4GB | 8GB | 16GB | 32GB |
| Min free RAM | 3GB | 5GB | 8GB | 12GB |
| Estimated max number of browser monitor tests executed/h2 | 300 | 650 | 1200 | 2200 |
| Max number of HTTP monitor tests executed/h2 | 300k | 300k | 300k | 300k |
| Estimated max number of HTTP monitor tests with simple scripts executed/h2 | 10k | 20k | 60k | 100k |
1 Not recommended for Windows Server-based ActiveGates. This is just a minimal requirement. We recommend at least 25GB of free disk space and 8GB RAM because of the enhancements planned for future releases.
2 As determined in our internal tests. The actual value may vary, depending on the complexity of your monitors. Calculated as 5000 tests (maximum for a single environment) run once every minute (maximum frequency).