ActiveVOS Server Prerequisites

ActiveVOS Server relies on a valid license and third party software components. Ensure that your application server environment meets the requirements before beginning the configuration procedure.

See the following topics for prerequisites:

ActiveVOS Server Licensing

A valid license is required to run ActiveVOS Server. You enter the license information after configuration and upon startup of the ActiveVOS Console. Please proceed to the Admin menu item of the Console and then select License. Select "Add" and copy and paste the entirety of the ActiveVOS Server license in the dialog. Then select the Server Status navigation menu item and press the "Start Server" button to start the ActiveVOS Server.

Obtaining a License Key

If you did not receive your license prior to receiving the software, contact Active Endpoints sales department via:

Our sales support staff can assist you with licensing questions.

Hardware Requirements

Application Server Hardware

ActiveVOS Server runs within different server containers, and the hardware requirements of the server are superseded by the requirements of the container.

Database Hardware

ActiveVOS Server application supports multiple database servers and has no additional requirements besides those of your selected database server.

Note: For maximum performance, we recommend that you run ActiveVOS Server and its database schema on separate servers.

JVM Memory Requirements

We strongly recommend that you run your application server with at least the following memory settings:

-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M

where Xms is starting memory, Xmx is maximum memory, and MaxPermSize refers to the amount of memory set aside for loading class files.

Disk Space Requirements

At least 1 GB of disk space is required to install the ActiveVOS Server application.

Note: Considerably more disk space is required to run the ActiveVOS application. The amount is dependent on several factors including logging levels you select, number of processes you run, and size of processes.

Software Requirements

Active Endpoints supports specific versions of Eclipse, client and server operating systems, application and database servers. Support means the Active Endpoints will assist customers with the installation and operation of ActiveVOS products on these 3rd party product versions.

Active Endpoints also certifies specific combinations of 3rd party products. Use of Certified Systems described here will reduce the risk of problems as a result of extensive testing of ActiveVOS with these specific versions. Database connectivity is required for ActiveVOS Server persistence and version control of deployed processes. It is recommended that the database resides on a dedicated server.

The following software is supported for use with ActiveVOS Server:

Operating Systems

Web Browser

Application Servers

JAVA Environment

Application Server JVM Comment
Tomcat Sun JDK 1.5.0_14 To avoid issues with multiple JDKs, we recommend that you set JAVA_HOME in the application server startup file instead of in the system environment.
JBOSS Sun JDK 1.5.0_14 To avoid issues with multiple JDKs, we recommend that you set JAVA_HOME in the application server startup file instead of in the system environment.
WebLogic JRockit JDK 1.5.0_04-b05
WebSphere IBM J9 VM build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0

Database Servers

ActiveVOS Server uses standard database servers as the persistent storage mechanism. You must have access to one of the supported database servers with the proper privileges to create databases and tables as well as privileges to update, insert and delete into those tables.

Supported Databases

Certified JDBC Database Drivers

A JDBC database driver is required. For certain configurations, you will be asked to provide the location of driver during configuration. For other configurations, you will be instructed to use your application server administration console to configure the database.

Note: For a clustered environment, you must install the driver to each node in the cluster.

Database Server JDBC Driver Notes
MySQL mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar (V5.0.7)
Microsoft SQL Server 1) The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.2 driver, or 2) the JDTS-1.2.jar (V1.2) driver. Version 1.1 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is not supported as it does not support required functionality.
Oracle ojdbc14.jar (V10.2.0.2.0)
DB2 8.1.10.812 db2jcc.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar (V1.3.70)

Before You Configure and Deploy ActiveVOS Server

Third party software components are required to be installed prior to configuring and deploying ActiveVOS Server.

Application Server must be Installed

An application server provides ActiveVOS Server a framework within which to run. Install the appropriate supported server container according to software vendor's documentation on each machine intended to run ActiveVOS Server.

Database Server must be Installed

ActiveVOS Server requires only one database server per any number of application servers running in a cluster.

All databases require a user with administrative rights to the computer in order to install them. ActiveVOS Server also requires a connection to your database server. This user needs the proper privileges to connect to the ActiveVOS database, update, insert and delete records within that database.

About the ActiveVOS Database Schema

ActiveVOS Server provides database schema definition files for all supported databases. Before you start the configuration and deploy utility, refer to Configuration for specific recommendations on how to install the schema for your database.

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