Customer Name

For Database Product:

National Bank of Rwanda.

Clarifications Request
1. Please specify number of sites and please
specify a breakdown per site of production
server platform running database servers. E.g
site 1 - 10 servers with Oracle, 15 Servers with
MSSQL,Site 2 5 Oracle Servers, 10 MySQL
servers etc. etc.

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3 sites
Site-1
3x HP-UX servers with Oracle
2x Windows servers with MSSQL
Site-2
2x iSeries with DB2
1x Redhat linux with Oracle
Site-3 (test/DR site)
1x HP-UX with Oracle
1x iSeries with DB2
1x Windows server with MSSQL

2. Please specify a breakdown of test server

platform running database servers. E.g 10
servers with Oracle, 15 Servers with MSSQL,
etc. etc.

Total of 3 test servers as stated in point 1:

1x HP-UX with Oracle
1x iSeries with DB2
1x Windows server with MSSQL

Nationa National Bank of Rwanda

ResponseCustomer l Bank of Rwanda.
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3. Is User Rights Management required? If so,

please provide the total number of Instances
and/or SIDs in use. E.g. One OS platform has a
Oracle database server installed, but this
database serves 10 SID, 10 SID should be
communicated.

Yes, see instances/SID overview:

Site-1
3x HP-UX servers with Oracle total 36
Oracle SID in use
2x Windows servers with MSSQL total
46 instances
Site-2
2x iSeries with DB2 6 instances
1x Redhat linux with Oracle 3 SID in
use
Site-3 (test/DR site)
1x HP-UX with Oracle 3 SID in use
1x iSeries with DB2 2 instances
1x Windows server with MSSQL 10
instances

4. What is the TPS (Transactions per second or

Query per second ) if you have this value we
can be more accurate with the scoping if not
then: ..

Site-1
3x HP-UX servers with Oracle
HP-UX1 Oracle 600 TPS
HP-UX2 Oracle 1200 TPS
HP-UX3 Oracle 139 TPS

2x Windows servers with MSSQL

Windows 1 MSSQL 267 TPS
Windows2 MSSQL 300TPS

Site-2
2x iSeries with DB2
iSeries1DB2 1500TPS
iSeries2 DB2 1200TPS
1x Redhat linux with Oracle

 1200TPS

OR:
What are the total number of CPU CORES
assigned to the database. E.g. Physical server is
4 CPU DUAL CORE, so 8 CPU CORE in total, but
only 4 CORES
assigned to the database, 4 CORES should be
communicated

Site-3 (test/DR site)

1x HP-UX with Oracle
100TPS
1x iSeries with DB2
100TPS
1x Windows server with MSSQL
100 TPS
OR:
Site-1
3x HP-UX servers with Oracle
HP-UX1 12 CPU 4 CORES Oracle has
4 Cores assigned
HP-UX2 24 CPU 6 CORES Oracle has
8 Cores assigned
HP-UX1 2 CPU 4 CORES Oracle has 2
Cores assigned
2x Windows servers with MSSQL
Windows 1 2 CPU 4 CORES MSSQL
has 2 Cores assigned
Windows 2 2 CPU 4 CORES MSSQL
has 4 Cores assigned
Site-2
2x iSeries with DB2
iSeries1 2 CPU 4 CORES MSSQL has 2
Cores assigned
iSeries2 2 CPU 4 CORES MSSQL has 2
Cores assigned
1x Redhat linux with Oracle

 4 CPU 4 CORES Oracle has 10

Cores assigned
Site-3 (test/DR site)
1x HP-UX with Oracle
1 CORE assigned to Oracle
1x iSeries with DB2
1 CORE assigned to DB2
1x Windows server with MSSQL
1 CORE assigned to MSSQL

5. DR Site in use? Please provide details, is this an

exact copy or does this deviate? Also is the DR
site active-active or active-passive?

6. High Availability required? Specify for both, the

management server and the gateway as well.

Yes, exact copy of Site-1 and Site-2 and activepassive in use

Yes high availability required for both

Management and Gateways

1x Gateway with at least 10 Gbps

7. What connection type is required, copper or
fiber, in case of fiber is this 1 GBPS or 10 GBPS?
LOM and HSM
8. Any optional modules required? Like Lights Out
Management, Hardware Security Module, SSL
Acceleration (Web only and default on X6500) or
SAN bus card?

9. Are you only interested in Auditing or need

blocking as well? (blocking is required for virtual
patching)

10. What is the scope?

Privilege User Access?
Sensitive Data Access?

Firewall feature for database is required, also

virtual patching

Privileged users only for now in relation to

sensitive data, later in one year regular application
user is also required

PCI audit is required

11. Is a specific regulation that needs to be met?
E.g PCI, SOX, etc. (this is for PS Team)
15% growth for coming 3 years
12. If yearly growth needs to be taken into
account, what should this be? E.g. Site 1 10% per
year increase for coming 3 years, site 2, no
growth foreseen

For Web Application Product:

Clarifications Request

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2 sites each containing one web application/server

1. Please specify number of sites that holds a web

National Bank of Rwanda

ResponseCustomer response

application that needs to be protected

2. Please specify the website throughput for HTTP

and/or HTTPS, please specify this per site. E.g site
1 Web1 throughput http 30 mbps, https 2 mbps,
site 2 Web2 throughput http 15 mbps https 0.5
mbps, etc.etc.

3. The Transactions per second (TPS) for all the

websites, please specify this per site. E.g site 1
Web1 TPS 22k, site 2 Web2 TPS 10k, etc.etc.
SSL handshakes/second, please specify this per
site. E.g site 1 Web1 100 SSL H/S, site 2 Web2 10
SSL H/S, etc.etc

Site 1
HTTP bandwidth usage is 150 mbps
HTTPS bandwidth usage is 100 mbps
Site 2
HTTP bandwidth usage is 30mbps
HTTPS bandwidth usage is 27 mbps
Site 1 Web: 24k TPS
Site2 Web: 4k TPS

Site1:
1100 HS/S
Site2:
10 HS/S
2048 key length

4. Key length used per website. E.g. Site 1 Web1

2048 key length, site 2 Web2 1024 key length,
etc., etc.
Yes high availability required
5. High Availability required? Specify for both, the
management server and the gateway as well.
No hardware redundancy is required
6. Hardware redundancy required?
This includes dual hard disk, dual power supply
and dual fan?