Hardware and Software Pre-Requisites¶

Client Software¶

Client Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10. x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit), Windows Server 2012 R2 (or higher) supported.
ODBC Drivers: Version 11 and above recommended. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53339)
Windows Media Foundation: For clients running Windows Server, then use the ‘Add Roles and Features’ wizard from the Server Manager. Skip through to ‘Features’ and select ‘Media Foundation’.
Desktop Experience: For clients running Windows Server, then the Desktop Experience feature needs to be installed (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772567(v=WS.11).aspx) )
.NET Framework 3.5 or above: Required to allow the Email functionality. (https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/framework)
Oracle Instant Client: Required on every client machine when one or more Oracle connectors are configured (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/instant-client/overview/index.html).

Other Client Software¶

Other software applications commonly installed on client machines include:

Microsoft Excel: Used for viewing reports which are exported to XLS format. Also commonly used to compile source input files for bulk data imports and updates (CSV or TXT can be used as an alternative).
Microsoft Word: Used for viewing Reports which are exported to RTF format (alternative viewer is WordPad).
Any WEB browser: Used for viewing Reports which are exported to HTML format.
Any PDF Reader: Used for viewing PDF format reference documents which may have been uploaded to the NEXUS IC Library.

Client Hardware¶

Processor: Core i5 / i7
Graphics card: If 3D support is required then the graphics card must support OpenGL.
Memory: 4GB RAM
Hard Disk: 30GB
Video Resolution: 1280 x 1024 (dual monitors recommended for IC-Inspection)

Network¶

We recommend network latency is maintained at < 4ms. Latency is displayed in the application status bar, as well as Memory Overhead and Memory used. Tasks within NEXUS can take a varying amount of time (from milliseconds to minutes) depending on complexity. Increased network latency can degrade performance. Some tasks will suffer barely at all from increased latency; some tasks will suffer much more. (Degradation is never worse than linear: double the latency will cause at most double the time to be taken by the application.)

IC-Web Supported Browsers¶

Internet Explorer 10 or above (Edge is not supported)
Firefox 53.0 or above
Chrome 54.0 or above
Safari 9.1 or above

IC-Web Server¶

Processor: Core i5 / i7
Graphics card: If 3D support is required then the graphics card must support OpenGL.
Memory: 4GB RAM
Hard Disk: 30GB
Server OS: Server 2012 R2
Web server software: Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.5 with ISAPI Extensions;
ODBC Drivers: Version 11 and above recommended. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53339)
Windows Media Foundation: For clients running Windows Server, then use the ‘Add Roles and Features’ wizard from the Server Manager. Skip through to ‘Features’ and select ‘Media Foundation’.
Desktop Experience: For clients running Windows Server, then the Desktop Experience feature needs to be installed (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772567(v=WS.11).aspx) )
.NET Framework 3.5 or above: (https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/framework)

SQL Server¶

Version: SQL Server 2012 with Service Pack 4
Processor: Multi-core CPU
Memory: 4GB+
Separation of System, Database and Transaction Log storage

Internet Connectivity¶

Software Licensing requires access to internet (standard https port 443)
Automatic Crash Logs requires access to internet (standard https port 443)

HASP License Server¶

If using physical HASP Dongle keys as the method of controlling software licenses, then see HASP Key Deployment

HASP HL Drivers and HASP HL License Manager is available for download from https://sentinelcustomer.gemalto.com/sentineldownloads/?s=&c=End+User&p=Sentinel+HASP+HL&o=all&t=all

(We recommend using Software Based Licensing rather than HASP.)