System Requirements for Stages 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4

Stages is a web application, so a recent web browser is required on the clients.

Note: The browser must have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

Stages is a Java application and is executed on a Tomcat application server. The application server is automatically installed together with Stages.

The application server also acts as a web server. Thus, no additional web server (i.e. Apache or IIS) is required.But if you do deploy Stages behind a web server (i.e. Apache or IIS), please ensure that:

• the https and wss (web socket) protocol URLs are forwarded for /stages and below.
• the https protocol URLs are forwarded for /reporting and below.
• the https protocol URLs are forwarded for /pkit and below, if you want the V6 Stages Bookmarks to be redirected to their V7 counterparts.

When using configuration management system integration (e.g. IBM Rational ClearCase, CVS), a client installation of the respective configuration management system is required on the server.

Running Stages with a permanent license requires the Stages server machine to have a fixed IP address.

If the Stages user database should be synchronized with a Windows Active Directory Server via LDAP, a read-only user account on the ActiveDirectory server is required.

• Oracle
• MySQL

^*) Stages CMS adapters are currently not available, but will be added in a future release.

Criteria

• max 25 parallel active users
• max 100 open user sessions
• max 5000 users synchronized via LDAP
• max 10 CM project sandboxes

Server Recommendations

• RAM: 8 GB
• CPU: 4 Cores
• Storage: 6 GB (system, not including project sandboxes)

Database Recommendations

• Shared Oracle or MySQL server
• Connection 1 GBit
• Latency < 1 ms (Ping)

Criteria

• max 100 parallel active users
• max 500 open user sessions
• max 15000 users synchronized via LDAP
• max 100 CM project sandboxes

Server Recommendations

• RAM: 12 GB
• CPU: 8 Cores
• Storage: 12 GB (system, not including project sandboxes)

Database Recommendations

• Dedicated Oracle or MySQL server
• CPU: 4 Cores
• Connection 10 GBit
• Latency < 1 ms (Ping)

Criteria

• max 500 parallel active users
• max 2000 open user sessions
• max 50000 users synchronized via LDAP
• over 100 CM project sandboxes

Server Recommendations

• RAM: 16 GB
• CPU: 16 Cores
• Storage: 24 GB (system, not including project sandboxes)

Database Recommendations

• Dedicated Oracle or MySQL server
• CPU: 8 Cores
• Connection 10 GBit
• Latency < 1 ms (Ping)