RoamServer Installation for Windows
Redundancy
RoamServer must be installed on at least two separate host machines, and failover must be configured between all hosts. iPass service guarantees will not apply if failover is not configured between at least two RoamServer host.
Server Requirements
- Processor Minimum: 1GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4GHz (x64 processor)
- Memory: Minimum 512MB
- Disk Space: Minimum (32-bit): 20 GB or greater
Minimum (64-bit): 32 GB or greater
- Server must have an accessible IP address
- Installer must have administrative privileges on the machine
Additional Requirements
- Connectivity to an authentication database
- The TCP/IP protocol is required to support the SSL-encrypted connection from the iPass Transaction Centers.
Preferences
The following are not required, although strongly preferred:
- No Device Management on Same Host: As the two applications use different security models, iPass does not recommend installing iPass Device Management and RoamServer on the same physical host.
- Inbound Internet access to RoamServer is secured by restricting inbound Internet access to a single port, and a small set of IP addresses. However, a Device Management server, by its nature, must allow universal inbound Internet access on standard HTTP/SSL ports, since remote Device Management agent IP addresses will be unknown. Device Management server is also secure, but simply implements more security at the application level instead of the network level.
- Combining such a locked-down server model and a wide-open server model on the same physical host results in a wide-open model, because security uses a "weakest link" paradigm.
- Connectivity: The RoamServer host must have connectivity to an SMTP mail server to send your certificate, and connectivity to an accounting server to allow accounting logs to be written to an alternate location.
Supported Platforms
RoamServer v5.2 is supported on the following Windows 2008 Platforms:
- Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (32-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
