Unfortunately SARA isn't as portable as we would like it to be, but it
still will run on a fairly large number of Un*x machines. One
of the main problems we had is that for it to do all of the tasks that
we wanted and to actually be able to release it within any reasonable
time frame, we had to both rely on many other publically available tools
and forego much of our usual testing methodologies. Still under
development, and most often used by us as a research and discovery tool,
it will become more robust and portable as we get feedback and are able
to test it on more platforms ourselves.
Operating systems
Currently SARA is known to work on the following Operating Systems:
With approximately 1500 hosts scanned, with approximately 18000 facts in the facts file took about 14 megabytes of memory on a SPARC 4/75 running SunOS 4.1.3.
With approximately 4700 hosts scanned, with about 150000 facts, it took up almost 35 megabytes of memory on an Indigo 2.
Needless to say, swapping is very painful if you don't have enough memory.
Other software tools required and where you can get them
Although all of it is widely and freely available on the Internet, on a wide number of sites, here are some easy places to find perl, mosaic, and netscape: