CA Business Intelligence System Requirements

The following information lists the system requirements for CA Business Intelligence.

Note: For a detailed list of supported environments and hardware requirements, see the various Supported Platforms documents on the CA Business Intelligence DVD. These documents include specific version and patch-level requirements for web application servers, web browsers, and operating systems.

Component

Requirement

Java application server

If you install the Tomcat application server during the CA Business Intelligence installation, you do not have to install a Java application server before you install CA Business Intelligence.

RAM

  • 512 MB (Minimum)
  • 1 GB (Recommended)

Hard Disk Space

  • 5 GB (Minimum)
  • 7 GB (Recommended)

Database Software

The database software must be compatible with the CMS and the Audit database, unless you install MySQL during the CA Business Intelligence installation.

Note: For a detailed list of supported environments, see the Platform.txt file that is included with your product distribution. In addition, we recommend that you also read the Release Notes included with your product distribution.

BusinessObjects Enterprise

BusinessObjects Enterprise requires a database to store information about the system and its users.

Note: For detailed information about the database requirements, see the CA Business Intelligence Implementation Guide.

VMWare

Verify that the computer name does not include any of the following characters:

  • underscore
  • period
  • slash

Note: The installation media includes the CA Business Intelligence Implementation Guide, which provides additional system requirement information. Before running the CA Business Intelligence installer, carefully review your specific operating system requirements to help ensure a successful installation of CA Business Intelligence.


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