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I.
Introduction
The Forum Sentry Quick Start Guide will provide an introduction to the Forum Sentry API Security Gateway
product from Forum Systems. The guide will cover initial requirements and installation procedures for all four
form factors: Hardware Appliance, Virtual Appliance, AWS AMI, and Sentry Software packages.
This guide will detail how to deploy SOAP and REST APIs through Sentry, send transactions for these policies
and review the details of the transactions within the Sentry logs.
Links to the full Sentry documentation are included in the last chapter, as is the full contact information for Forum
Systems Support.
II.
Requirements and Installation
1. Minimum Requirements
Software
The following are minimum requirements for the Sentry software instances only.
Operating System Requirements:
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, 2012, 2012 R2, 8, 10
Linux running on a 2.4 (or later) kernel
Linux 64bit
Solaris x86, 10
Minimum Hardware Requirements:
1GHz CPU
40GB Hard drive
2GB Ram
Virtual Appliance
The following are minimum requirements for the Sentry virtual appliances only.
VMware Workstation 8.x or ESX 5.x or later
200GB Hard Drive
8GB memory1GHz CPU
*Note* If using vSphere vMotion, this mechanism needs to be tested in each environment prior
to deploying into production. Please contact Forum Systems Support for more information.
AWS AMI
The following are minimum requirements for the Sentry AMI only.
200GB Hard Drive
2 CPUs