System requirements

Verify that your hardware and software meet or exceed the minimum requirements to install Rational® Focal Point™.

The following table shows the minimum system requirements to install and use Rational Focal Point. Check the compatibility between the operating systems, browsers, JREs, databases and the application servers before you install Rational Focal Point.

Table 1. System requirements to install Rational Focal Point
Item Requirements
Hardware
  • Memory: 1 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended
  • Disk space: 10 GB minimum, 80 GB recommended
  • Display: Minimum resolution 1024 x 768 on a client computer
Platform One of the following operating systems must be installed:
  • Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP2 (32-bit x86, 64-bit x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, SP2 (32-bit x86, 64-bit x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, SP2 (32-bit x86, 64-bit x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, SP2 (32-bit x86, 64-bit x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 (64-bit x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 (64-bit x64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5.0 Advance Platform (32-bit x86, 64-bit x64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Desktop editions (32-bit x86, 64-bit x64)
  • Sun Solaris 9 or 10 SPARC
Application server One of the following application servers must be installed:
  • Apache Tomcat 5.5.28
  • IBM® WebSphere® Application Server 7.0.0.9
Notes:
  • The Apache Tomcat application server that was provided with Rational Focal Point in versions earlier than 6.4.1 is not bundled with the version 6.5 package.
Relational database One of the following databases must be installed:
  • IBM DB2® Enterprise Server Edition 9.5 with Fixpack 5
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.7
  • Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition Release 2
  • Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 2
  • Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition Release 2
  • Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 2
  • PostgreSQL 8.2
  • PostgreSQL 8.3
  • PostgreSQL 8.4
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (JRE)
  • Server: Sun JRE 6 or IBM JRE6 with SR7
  • Client: Sun JRE 1.4.1 or IBM JRE 1.4.1 or higher versions
Web browser You can use these browsers to log in to Rational Focal Point:
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5, 3.6
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0 (recommended)
Licensing server
  • IBM Rational Common License Server 8.1.1
For more information see, Managing licenses with Rational Common Licensing.
Installation Manager prerequisite
  • On Linux: The GNU Image Manipulation Program Toolkit (GTK+), Version 2.8.11, or later
If IBM Installation Manager causes installation issues, see the Installation Manager documentation and the tech. notes.
Note: If you set up a clustered environment, make sure that the system time on the different servers is synchronized and differs by less than one second.

For the most up-to-date system requirements, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=4057&uid=swg27019945


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