This chapter covers Linux-specific details of installation and configuration of
SonicWALL Email Security Software. See “Installing SonicWALL Email Security Software on Windows” on page 31 for instructions for installing on the Microsoft Windows OS.
System Requirements
To install SonicWALL Email Security on Linux, SonicWALL Email Security recommends the following minimum software and hardware configurations.
Operating System:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0, update 4. To verify the version, type the following command:
> uname -a
The version printed should match
Linux 2.4.21-27.ELsmp.
Note No other version of Linux and no other update for RedHat Linux is supported at this time.
Caution It is strongly recommended that you install SonicWALL Email Security in a separate partition and not in the root partition.
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Hardware:
• Processor: Pentium 4 or Xeon or equivalent • Memory: 1 Gbyte
• Hard Disk: 40GB minimum, with a caching RAID controller for the data directory • Available swap space: minimum 3 Gbytes.
SonicWALL recommends installing SonicWALL Email Security on a dedicated server.
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The components bundled in SonicWALL Email Security Installer include the following:
• Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment • Apache Tomcat
• Firebird Database Engine • Jaybird JDBC driver • SonicWALL Email Security
• SonicWALL Email Security User Profilers • Port25 PowerMTA
The installer installs all these components in the appropriate location.
Note If the Firebird database engine is already running on the server on which you install SonicWALL Email Security, Firebird will not get installed.
Caution If you have anti-virus programs running on the machines where you install SonicWALL Email Security, please make sure that those programs do not scan
SonicWALL Email Security installation or data directories. If virus scanning for these directories is not disabled, SonicWALL Email Security data directory can get corrupted and quarantined messages may not be retrievable for all users.
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SonicWALL Email Security Installation Checklist
Use the table below to record installation values.
Table 1 Installation Checklist
IDs Parameters Needed
B Administrative Web Server Port Installation Default web server port: 80 C The server’s trusted network IPaddress Login Page Example: 192.168.31.15
D The server’s trusted fully qualified
DNS name Login Page Example:
EnterpriseSoftware.mycorp.com E SonicWALL Email Security
Licenses Licensing
F Admin Username Setup Admin Default: admin
G Admin Password Setup Admin Default: master
H Admin email address Setup Admin Example: [email protected] I SonicWALL Email Security
SMTP Listening Port
Add Mail
Server Default: 25 J Destination SMTP server DNS
name or IP address
Add Mail Server
Example: mail-relay.mycorp.com K Destination SMTP server’s port
number
Add Mail
Server Default: 25 L Email domain names your
organization accepts mail for
Add Mail Server
Example: mycorp.com,
mycorp.net, mydivision.com
M LDAP Server Name LDAP Config Example: mail-relay.mycorp.com
N LDAP Port Number LDAP Config Default: 389
O LDAP Login Name LDAP Config varies by mail server, check Appendix A, “LDAP”.
P LDAP Password LDAP Config
Q LDAP Directory Tree Node to
Search LDAP Config varies by mail server, check Appendix
A, “LDAP”.
R
Microsoft NT NETBIOS Domain Name (only required if using Active Directory or Exchange 5.5)
LDAP Config Example: MYCORP, check Appendix A, “LDAP”.
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You must be logged in as root to install SonicWALL Email Security.
1. To install, type:
> eg-4.1.2.5855-linux-x86.sh
2. Confirm that you have the root privileges.
3. SonicWALL Email Security installer detects whether you have sufficient available swap space on your system. If you do not, an alert message will appear displaying size of the available and required swap space.
• If you get this message, and you want to continue the installation and fix this problem later, type:
force
• To stop the installation and add the swap space as requested, press Enter. After increasing swap space, to start the installation again, type:
> eg-4.1.2.5855-linux-x86.sh
4. At the following prompt, respond with the desired installation directory, or press Enter for the default:
Enter the installation directory for the
SonicWALL Email Security [default: /usr/local/MailFrontierEG]:
This is the directory where the executable files are stored.
5. At the following prompt, respond with the desired location for the data files, or press Enter for the default.
Enter the installation directory for the
SonicWALL Email Security data files [default: /usr/local/MailFron-tierEG/data]:
This is the directory where user and administrative data and configuration information is stored, which includes junk mail files, Allowed Lists, Blocked Lists, and junk-blocking preferences.
Note If you are deploying multiple SonicWALL Email Securities specify the shared folder here for your data.
Note For performance reasons, read/write access to the data directory should be fast. If the data directory is on the same disk drive as the install directory, it is almost
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6. Specify the web server port number. Choose the default unless you are running another web server on port 80:
Please specify a port number for the SonicWALL Email Security Web server [default: 80]:
NOTE: You can change the port number and also configure HTTPS access through the UI in Server Configuration > User View Setup page.
7. The installer now will extract and copy over the necessary files and modify the system files for necessary configuration.
8. When the installation is complete, the SonicWALL Email Security is started. The installer displays the location of the licensing agreement in the installation directory.
9. Read the agreement and press Enter to accept its terms.
Installation is now complete.