This document describes the minimum configuration requirements when installing the Software package application and data servers on a Microsoft® Windows - SQL Server 2014 server.
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| Operating system | - Microsoft Windows Server 2016.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter.
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| Computer | - Industry-standard server or virtual machine.
- Processors:
- Recommended: Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 or later, E7 v3 or later
- AMD OPTERON™ or EPYC™
- Avoid low energy processors, best performance with a clock speed above 2.4 GHz
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| RAM | - 2 GB for the OS + 2 to 6 GB per database instance (average) + 60 MB per connected user.
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| Disk space | - SQL server 2014: 3 GB.
- For Sage X3 (reference folder and software): 4 GB.
- For the demo folder: 4 GB.
- For the exploitation folder: Depends on the data managed. A sizing tool is available to calculate the size requirements.
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| Database software | Microsoft SQL Server 2014 R2 x64 Enterprise Edition, installed with the following options:- You can use a standard instance but a named instance is recommended. It will be used to create the product database.
- Regardless of the instance type, it must have the following characteristics:
- Sorting (collation) order should be Latin1_General_BIN
- Mixed mode is mandatory to support authentication both by Windows and by SQL Server.
- Access to the sa user.
- By default, the communication by TCP/IP or Namepipe is not activated. It must be enabled for these two modes.
- The SQL Server Browser service must be launched.
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| Mail server | - The workflow engine used in "Classic mode" requires an SMTP/POP3 server accessible from the server.
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| Publication server | - An Apache server 2.4 must be installed on the application server: Download link
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| User accounts | - For the actual software users, it is recommended to define a user group and assign the access to the different software folders after the software component installation.
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| Others | - A SAFE X3 ADXADMIN administration runtime must be installed on the server.
- A JDK or java runtime environment (version 8) must be installed.
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