1. Requirements

Before you start installing the Lepide Data Security Platform for File Server, make sure that your computer meets the following requirements.

1.1 Basic System Requirements

• Required Processor

  • Minimum 6 core processor

  • Recommended 8 core processor

• Required RAM

  • Minimum 16 GB RAM

  • Recommended 32 GB RAM

• Required free disk space

  • Minimum 100 GB

  • Recommended 200 GB

• Any of the following Windows Operating Systems.

  • Windows Server OS: 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025 (latest)

• Supported SQL Server Options for Storing Auditing Logs:

  • Any of the following SQL Server instances, either local or network hosted.

  • Recommended: Network-hosted SQL Server.

  • Any SQL Server above and including SQL Server 2016 (standard or enterprise)

• .NET Framework 4.6.2 developer pack and above

1.2 Supported Servers for Auditing

2. Pre-requisites

2.1 Prerequisites to Audit NetApp 7-Mode

• The agent to audit NetApp Filer can be installed on any client system or domain controller, but it requires GPMC.MSC (Group Policy Management Console) for installation.

• If you need the Permission Analysis of NetApp Filer, then we recommend you use synchronous mode to connect to NetApp Filer.

2.2 Required User Rights

To install and work with Lepide, you need to have appropriate rights to the system where it will be installed. You will also need to have appropriate rights to access Active Directory, SQL Server, Windows File System, and NetApp Filer.

2.2.1 Service Rights

To run the service of Lepide after installation, you can select any of the following:

• A local system administrator

• A member of Domain Admins Group

• Manage Service Account object

2.2.2 Local System Rights

The user should have the following permissions on the local computer where the software is installed:

• Full access permission to the drive on which Operating System is installed

• Read/Write permissions in the registry

2.3 Prerequisites to audit NetApp Cluster Mode

• Please verify the settings on the NetApp Cluster Mode before installing the agent.

• Ensure that the time on NetApp Cluster Mode is synchronized with the time on the computer where the solution is installed to get precise report timings.

• When you install the agent for NetApp Cluster Mode, use only the NetApp domain user.

2.4 Recommendations for NetApp Cluster Mode

In NetApp, the auditing framework is provided by Data ONTAP. It is similar to the auditing performed on Windows® Servers. This feature was available from the early versions of Data ONTAP, but NetApp itself recommends using Data ONTAP version 8.2.3 or higher, which is the same as we recommend.

Auditing can be enabled on either CIFS shares or NFS exports.

• CIFS Auditing: It refers to auditing access events from NetApp filers through Windows clients/Mac OS, which allows data access on the storage system using the CIFS protocol.

• NFS Auditing: It refers to auditing access events from NetApp filers through UNIX/Linux® clients, which allows data access on the storage system using the NFS protocol. We currently do not support the auditing of the NFS Shares.