Splunk® SOAR (On-premises)

Install and Upgrade Splunk SOAR (On-premises)

As of version 6.4.0, the visual editor for classic playbooks is no longer part of Splunk SOAR. Before upgrading, convert your classic playbooks to modern mode. Your classic playbooks will continue to run and you can view and edit them in the SOAR Python code editor.
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This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® SOAR (On-premises). For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

System requirements for production use

Systems for production must meet or exceed the listed requirements:

System Area Requirement
Operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 through 7.9, CentOS 7.6 through 7.9
Processor 1 server-class CPU, 4 to 8 cores
Memory Minimum of 16GB RAM, 32GB recommended
Storage needs storage for multiple volumes:
  • Splunk SOAR (On-premises) home directory also known as <$PHANTOM_HOME>: 500GiB
    • mounted as either /opt/phantom/ or as <$PHANTOM_HOME>
  • Phantom data: 500GB
    • mounted as either /opt/phantom/data or <$PHANTOM_HOME>/data
      The PostgreSQL database will be stored underneath the Phantom Data mount at: <$PHANTOM_HOME>/data/db
  • Embedded Splunk Enterprise: 500GiB
    • mounted as /opt/phantom/data/splunk or <$PHANTOM_HOME>/data/splunk
  • File share volumes: 500GiB
    • mounted as /opt/phantom/vault or <$PHANTOM_HOME>/vault

Disk space requirements vary depending on the volume of data ingested and the size of your production environment.

Network A one-gigabit network interface
System utilities
  • cron
    • On privileged deployments, the phantom user must have permission to create cron jobs.
    • On unprivileged deployments, the user account that runs must have permission to create cron jobs.
  • ntp

If you use the Files feature to store virtual machine snapshots or other large-format data, it is recommended you use a larger volume for storage.

Last modified on 12 April, 2024
System requirements for evaluation use   ports and endpoints

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® SOAR (On-premises): 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.3, 5.3.4, 5.3.5, 5.3.6

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