Split Security Engine Node (SEN) Services

The standard architecture for the Tenable Identity Exposure on-premises platform uses three virtual machines (VMs) by default for the Storage Manager, Security Engine Node, and Directory Listener.

However, if the environment that you monitor has more than 150K users, you can split the Security Engine Node (SEN) over five different machines to improve performance.

The installation process installs the following Tenable Identity Exposure components:

VM # vCPU
(per instance)
Memory
(per instance)
Disk Space
(per instance)
Recommended Service Service Description
1 8 cores — at least 2.6 GHz 16 GB of RAM 1 TB RabbitMQ A message broker between services.
2 8 cores — at least 2.6 GHz 16 GB of RAM 100 GB Attack Path Computes attack path relations and maintaining them over time.
3 12 cores — at least 2.6 GHz 32 GB of RAM 300 GB Cephei Computes values for different analytics used for the Tenable Identity Exposure dashboards.
CetiBridge Communication plugins and service in charge of communicating with the Active Directory.
Electra Manages web sockets to update information without reloading the user interface.
Enif Authenticates web users.
Eridanis Connects to the SQL Server; ensures the exactness of Tenable Identity Exposure's information.
Eltanin Sends data to the Tenable Cloud, if enabled in Tenable Identity Exposure.
Health Check Alerts configuration anomalies leading to connectivity or other issues in the infrastructure.
Kapteyn Runs in the end user's browser to show the user interface.
4 16 cores — at least 2.6 GHz 16 GB of RAM 100 GB Cancri Decodes raw information; fetches delta between events; computes event type.
EventLogsDecoder Decodes information related to IOA events.
5 16 cores — at least 2.6 GHz 32 GB of RAM 100 GB Cygni Computes deviances and attacks.

For more information, see Resource Sizing for requirements.

SEN Installation on Several Machines

To install the Security Engine Node on several machines, you select the services to install on each specific virtual machine.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate

To use peer verification, your PKI certificate must include the IP addresses or DNS of all the machines used to install Tenable Identity Exposure.

PKI Certificate

Example

The following example shows an installation of RabbitMQ and Attack Path on one virtual machine.

See also