Server

Operating Systems

Supported Operating System Notes
AIX 7.1  
AIX 7.2  
CentOS 6.x  

CentOS 7.x

MrSID raster images require libpng12.so on this operating system
HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium)  
Oracle Linux 6.x  
Oracle Linux 7.x  
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x  
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x  
Solaris 10 (SPARC only)  
Solaris 11 (SPARC only)  
SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 11.x

Requires the following:
glibc-2.9 or glibc-2.11
installed as follows:

zypper install libstdc++33-32bit zlib-32bit
SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12.x

Requires the following:

glibc-2.9 or glibc-2.11
installed as follows:

zypper install libstdc++33-32bit zlib-32bit

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Requires these runtime libraries installed as follows:

apt-get install libstdc++5:i386 zlib1g:i386

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Requires these runtime libraries installed as follows: apt-get install libstdc++5:i386 zlib1g:i386

Windows Server 2012

 
Windows Server 2012 R2  
Windows Server 2016  

Unsupported Operating Systems by Module

All modules support the Windows operating systems listed in the previous section.

The following table shows the UNIX/Linux operating systems that are not supported for specific modules.

Module Not Supported
Analytics Scoring Module

AIX 7.1, 7.2

HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium)

Solaris 10 (SPARC only), Solaris 11 (SPARC only)

Enterprise Geocoding Module (U.S.)

AIX 7.2

Oracle Linux 6.x, 7.x

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12.x

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Enterprise Tax Module

AIX 7.2

Oracle Linux 6.x, 7.x

Solaris 11 (SPARC only)

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12.x

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

GeoConfidence Module

HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium)

GeoEnrichment Module

AIX 7.2

Oracle Linux 6.x, 7.x

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12.x

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Global Geocoding Module

Oracle Linux 6.x, 7.x (not supported for U.S.)

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12.x (not supported for U.S.)

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (not supported for U.S.)

Location Intelligence Module stages Closest Site and Legacy Point in Polygon

HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium)

Oracle Linux 6.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, 7.x

Solaris 10 (SPARC only), 11 (SPARC only)

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 11.x, 12.x

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Machine Learning Module

AIX 7.1, 7.2

HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium)

Solaris 10 (SPARC only), Solaris 11 (SPARC only)

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Module Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
SAP Module Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
SugarCRM Module Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
Universal Addressing Module Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Universal Address Module - Validate Address AUS This module does not support UNIX/Linux platforms.
Universal Address Module - Validate Address Global

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Solaris 10 (SPARC only)

HP Itanium

Disk Space

New Installation Upgrade
  • The disk where you are installing Spectrum™ Technology Platform must have 4 GB of free space to install all modules, less if installing fewer modules.
  • The disk where the temp folder is located must have at least 10 GB of free space for the installation to extract the files it needs. You may need more depending on the options you are installing. If necessary, modify your TEMP environment variable (Windows) or IATEMPDIR environment variable (Unix and Linux) to point to a location with enough space.
  • The disk where you are installing Spectrum™ Technology Platform must have free disk space equal to three times the size of your current installation. To determine the size of your current installation, look at the size of the folder where you installed Spectrum™ Technology Platform.
  • If you are adding modules as part of your upgrade, you will need 3 GB to install all modules, less if installing fewer modules.
  • The disk where the temp folder is located must have 10 GB of free space plus four times the size of your current installation. For example, if your current installation is 5 GB, you would need 30 GB of temp space: (4 x 5 GB) + 10 GB = 30 GB. If necessary, modify your TEMP environment variable (Windows) or IATEMPDIR environment variable (Unix and Linux) to point to a location with enough space.
Note: If you are installing a module that uses a reference database, such as a postal database, geocoding database, or data normalization tables, you will need space for this data. The total disk space varies, depending on which modules and databases you are installing.

Memory

  • Basic memory requirement: 16 GB
  • The Data Normalization Module and Universal Name Module require additional memory if you use these name databases:
    • Arabic Plus Pack: 5.5 GB
    • Asian Plus Pack - Chinese: 32 MB
    • Asian Plus Pack - Japanese: 1.6 GB
    • Asian Plus Pack - Korean: 8 MB
    • Core Names: 1.1 GB
  • The minimum memory requirement for the Machine Learning Module is 1 GB RAM. The allocation (java process – jvm memory) should be three to four times the size of the input file used in jobs where models are created.

    To increase the JVM memory of the Machine Learning Module, open the %install_home%\server\modules\machinelearning\java.vmargs file and set the -Xmx and -Xms parameters as follows:

    -Xms1024m -Xmx52g

Additional Requirements

  • For all Unix and Linux systems, a minimum of 8192 file descriptors is required. This can be set by running the ulimit command:

    ulimit –n 8192

    Note: Do not set ulimit to unlimited. Doing so may cause issues with system resources and security alerts that will cause the installation to fail.
  • The file size limit needs to be set to 2 GB in order to install Spectrum™ Technology Platform. To set the file size limit, use the ulimit command:

    ulimit -f 4194304

    This is only required to run the installer. It is not required to run Spectrum™ Technology Platform after installation.

  • For CenOS and Ubuntu, you must increase the maximum number of memory map areas. To do this, open the /etc/sysctl.conf file and set vm.max_map_count to 262144. Then, reboot the system. and run sysctl vm.max_map_count to verify that the setting has been updated.
  • For IBM AIX only, you must download and install Java 8, both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version, before installing Spectrum™ Technology Platform. If you do not have Java 8 installed, download and install it from:

    www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html

  • Windows administrator rights are required to install Spectrum™ Technology Platform
  • In order to use the enhanced system tray notification application the server must have .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (also known as 3.5.1) or higher. Windows Server 2008 comes with a limited version of .NET Framework 3.5. You need install the full .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows Server 2008. Later versions of Windows Server come with the required version of .NET Framework.

System Requirements for Enterprise Geocoding and Global Geocoding modules

  • The Enterprise Geocoding Module and Global Geocoding Module system requirements:
    • minimum: 16 GB RAM, 8 CPU, 100 GB storage
    • recommended 32 GB RAM, 8 CPU, 200 GB storage, sufficient for all datasets.

The amount of RAM will depend on how many users on the sytem and how many datasets are loaded.

Requirements for the Big Data Integration Module

For the stages using Hadoop, which are Read from Hive File, Read from Hadoop Sequence, Write to Hadoop Sequence, and Write to Hive File, and for the activities Run Hadoop MapReduce Job and Run Hadoop Pig:
  • Hadoop version 2.6 and above
For the activities using Spark, which are Submit Spark Job and Spark Sorter:
  • Spark 2.0.1 and above.