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I’m finally getting around to installing the new EdgeSight for NetScaler version 2.1.  Here are the prerequisites you will need to get started.

NOTE: I’m installing this on a Windows 2008 64-bit server updated with August 2011 updates

From the documentation

Hardware

• CPU: 2GHz (or better)
• Memory: 2GB of RAM recommended, 1GB of RAM required
• Disk: 2GB free space

Software

• Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported on all platforms
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 for Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
• Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)
• ASP.NET
• Microsoft XML Parser 3.0
• Windows Script 5.6 or higher
• .NET Framework 2.0 SP1
• SQL Client Add-On Tools, including SQL-DMO objects.(if Web server and database server are on different machines)

• SQL Server Client Tools Requirement
• Look for SQLServer2005_BC.msi or SQLServer2005_BC_x64.msi on http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24793
• Operating System Requirement
• IIS Feature Requirement
• Role Services
• Static Content
• Default Document
• ASP.NET
• ISAPI Extensions
• ISAPI Filters
• Windows Authentication
• Ensure that the following Management Tools are selected under Role Services for the Web Server:
• IIS 6 Management Compatibility
• IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
• IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
• IIS 6 Scripting Tools
• IIS 6 Management Console
• Microsoft .NET 2.0 SP1 Runtime Requirement
• MSMQ Requirement
• Add Features: Message Queuing -> Message Queuing Services
• MSXML Requirement
• Windows Script Host Requirement

After adding the above components…

Thanks,
Alain