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TIBCO Spotfire Server 5.0.x

Category Operating System

Requirement Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

NOTE: All operating systems must be installed by the customer prior to Spotfire software installation. NOTE: Both 32- and 64-bit versions of the Operating Systems are supported. Processor For Windows: Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2 GHz or higher For Linux: Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2 GHz or higher RAM 4 GB recommended (2 GB minimum)

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Hard disk space

1 GB of free space to complete installation 500 MB for base server software to execute Recommended 10 GB or greater when TIBCO Spotfire Server 5.0.x is configured with database on the same machine.

Spotfire Server Database

Oracle: Oracle11g Release 2 (11.2.0.x) Oracle11g Release 1 (11.1.0.x) Oracle10g Release 2 (10.2.0.x) Oracle10g Release 1 (10.1.0.x) Oracle10g XE (Not recommended - for non-production environments only **) Microsoft SQL Server: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Datacenter, Parallel Data Warehouse, Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Developer) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2(Datacenter, Parallel Data Warehouse, Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Developer) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Developer) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 and higher (Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Developer)

NOTE: ** Oracle10g XE is supported for use in non-production environments (like evaluation, test or development) but for production environments, Spotfire strongly recommends using one of the recommended database engines listed above. Please note that there are numerous known limitations when using Oracle XE instead of one of the recommended database types, such as: a 4GB limit is enforced on disk space (which will e.g. limit the amount of data that can be stored in the Spotfire Library) it can only address 1GB of RAM it can only use one CPU Oracle bugs that can cause Spotfire server migrations to fail (workaround documented in manual) Spotfire Server startup issues after reboot when Oracle XE is installed on the same machine (caused by Oracle TNS Listener). It is recommended to install Oracle XE on a separate machine

NOTE: Please note that the Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database is

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third-party software that must be installed by the customer prior to the Spotfire software installation. NOTE: The TIBCO Spotfire Server installation requires two database schemas to be created. These schemas together require minimum 512 MB - there is no upper limit for the size, unless restricted by database limitations. TIBCO Spotfire Software TIBCO Spotfire Server 5.0.x, with a TIBCO Spotfire 5.0.x deployment, supports connections from TIBCO Spotfire (Client), TIBCO Spotfire Web Player and TIBCO Spotfire Automation Services version 5.0.x. Upgrades: TIBCO Spotfire Clients of version 3.2.x to 5.0.x can connect to TIBCO Spotfire Server 5.0.x (with a TIBCO Spotfire 5.0.x deployment) to be upgraded to TIBCO Spotfire 5.0.x. Authentication Method One of following: LDAP (Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle (Sun) Java System Directory Server) Kerberos v5 for Active Directory NTLMv1 and NTLMv2 Microsoft Windows NT Domain Database Table (Spotfire Server used to both manage and store usernames and passwords) Custom JAAS modules using username/password credentials X.509 client certificates (limited to one certificate per CA per Windows profile) Installation Privileges on Windows Locale Web Browser (for Server pages) Network Information Services Data Sources (Optional) IPv4 or IPv6 Information Services can be used for server-side data access. Listed below are the tested Information Services Data Sources: Oracle11g Release 2 (11.2.0.x) on Oracle Exadata Database Machine Oracle11g Release 2 (11.2.0.x) Oracle11g Release 1 (11.1.0.x) TIBCO Spotfire Server 5.0.x must be installed under a Windows user account with full administrative privileges. The server should run in an English (United States) language setting. Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0.x to 9.0.x

Administration/Configuration Mozilla Firefox 14.0.x and higher

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Oracle10g Release 2 (10.2.0.x) Oracle10g Release 1 (10.1.0.x) Oracle10g XE Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2.0.x) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 and higher Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Teradata 13.0 and higher SAP HANA MySQL 5.x DB2 8.1.2.169 DB2 9.x Sybase ASE 15.0 Express TIBCO Spotfire Advanced Data Services NOTE: Please note that the databases are third-party software - not bundled with the Spotfire software installation. JDBC Drivers for use with Information Services Data Sources (Optional) Information Services can be used for server-side data access. Listed below are the tested JDBC Drivers for Information Services Data Sources: Oracle: Oracle 11g JDBC Thin Driver DataDirect v4.1 Oracle JDBC Driver Microsoft SQL Server: Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 jTDS v1.2.5 Teradata: Teradata JDBC Driver 13.10.00.31 SAP HANA: SAP HANA JDBC Driver MySQL: MySQL Connector/J 5.1

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DB2: IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ, version 3.50.152 Sybase: Sybase JConnect, version 6.05 jTDS v1.2.5 VMWare (Optional) TIBCO Spotfire Server can (if so desired) be run on VMWare Server 3.0 and higher Load Balancer (Optional) Load balancing Spotfire Servers can be achieved using Apache httpd with the mod_jk module enabled. This solution is fully tested (using Apache httpd v2.2.14 and mod_jk v1.2.28) and recommended. It is also possible to use a different load balancing solution, as long as it supports session affinity, which ensures that a client communicates with the same server for the duration of the session.

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