Deployment Guide for 12.5

Tags: Documentation, Installation & Upgrade, PDF Documentation, Version 12.5.0

The following article contains a summary of the NetWitness® Deployment Guide for 12.5. To see the full guide, go to Attachments on this article and download the associated PDF.

Summary of the NetWitness® Deployment Guide for 12.5.

The NetWitness® Platform 12.5 Deployment Guide provides guidance for planning, deploying, and maintaining a NetWitness® environment across on‑premises, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. It covers baseline requirements, optional deployment scenarios, high availability, disaster recovery, and detailed network/port requirements.

The Basics

This section focuses on pre‑deployment planning and architectural considerations, which emphasizes capacity planning for growth, storage, and performance, encourages avoiding single points of failure, and supports multiple deployment models, including: physical appliances, On‑prem virtual hosts, cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP). The goal is to ensure a smooth deployment through proper sizing, architecture, and role planning. It, also, provides additional installation and configuration guides for each environment.

Basic Deployment

This section describes the standard deployment process for NetWitness® components. Deployment requires understanding enterprise requirements and system topology. The general deployment sequence includes: installing hosts (physical or virtual), Configuring licensing, then Configuring hosts and services, and applying updates and preparing for upgrades. Mixed‑mode version environments must follow specific upgrade guidelines. This results in a correctly installed and licensed NetWitness® environment ready for operational use.

High‑Level Deployment Architecture

This section explains NetWitness® modular architecture and flexible deployment options. Components are decoupled, enabling hybrid and cloud deployments. Also, Centralized SecOps VPC designs reduce latency and simplify management. This supports aggregation of network, log, endpoint, and cloud SaaS data. This results in scalable architectures tailored to enterprise and hybrid environments.

Deployment Optional Setup Procedures

This section describes advanced and optional deployment scenarios. The analyst User Interface (Analyst UI) provides regional or role‑based analyst access, and reduces latency and load on the Primary UI. It cannot perform administrative or content‑creation tasks.

The following article contains a summary of the NetWitness® Deployment Guide for 12.5. To see the full guide, go to Attachments on this article and download the associated PDF.