Note: This information can also be found in the DocuShare 6 Installation Guide.
Note: This information is provided for references purposes only for existing installation of DocuShare 6.x. To obtain the System Requirements for the current release of DocuShare go to http://docushare.xerox.com/products/systemreqs/en/
The DocuShare 6 server can be configured to work with several types of hardware and software. Use this pre-installation checklist to prepare your server for DocuShare installation.
System requirements
· 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon MP processor or greater
· 3 GB RAM or greater
· 2 GB free disk space or greaterDocuShare 6 installation on a Windows server requires the following:
Operating system
· Windows 2000 Server with SP 4 and IIS 5
· Windows 2003 Server with SP 1 or R2 and IIS 6
Tech Note: DocuShare is tested to only support 32-bit systems.
Web servers
· Microsoft IIS 5, 6—the web server must be installed and running before installing DocuShare.
· Apache 2.0.50 or higher on Windows 2000 or 2003 server
· Apache 1.3.37 or 2.0.50 on Solaris 9 or 10; Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 4; SUSE Linux Server v.8—the web server must be installed and running before installing DocuShare.
· SunOne/Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 on Windows 2000 server; Solaris 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3; SUSE Linux Server v.8—the web server must be installed and running before installing DocuShare. DocuShare requires a web servlet or server as part of its functionality. DocuShare includes a web servlet or can be configured to use one of the following web servers.
Databases
· MSDE 2000 SP4 (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine)—is included in the DocuShare 6 installation program. If MSDE is not installed on your system, the DocuShare 6 installer can install MSDE 2000. Refer to the Microsoft website for the latest service packs and hot fixes for MSDE 2000 or to Support on page 1–4 for Xerox support information.
· SQL Server 2000 SP4, 2005 SP2—SQL Server must be installed and functioning (database established). You can create and define the DocuShare database.DocuShare uses a database as part of its functionality. DocuShare can be configured to use MSDE, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases. See Appendix A, Web Servers for configuring one of the web servers.
Note: DocuShare Release 6.0/CPX Release 6.0 with Records Manager requires SQL Server 2000. DocuShare CPX Release 6 with XDB requires SQL Server 2005
o Database User Name
o Database User Password
o Database Port
o Tablespace Name
o Database Host Name
o Set the SQLServer for SQL Server and Windows authentication only. DocuShare 6 does not support Windows only authentication at this time.
o Set the SQLServer maximum memory usage to 50% of your server’s physical RAM, if you are using SQLServer on the same system as DocuShare.
o CI is case insensitive; CS is case sensitive
o AI is accent insensitive; AS is accent sensitive
· Oracle 9.2.0.8 or 10.2.0.3—the database must be installed and functioning. You can create and define the Oracle tablespace or if selected, can be created and defined by the DocuShare installer.
Note: DocuShare Release 6.0/CPX Release 6.0 with Records Manager requires Oracle v9i. DocuShare CPX Release 6 with XDB requires Oracle 9.2.0.6 or 10g.
Caution: If your system will be operating with multibyte characters, ensure that your database character encoding is set to AL32UTF8. Refer to your Oracle database documentation for details.
o Database User Name
o Database User Password
o Database Port
o Tablespace NameTo connect DocuShare to the database, obtain the following information from your database administrator before installing DocuShare. See Appendix B, Databases for a typical DocuShare tablespace creation script. On your Windows server: On your SQL server: In the New Database dialog window, set the Collation name to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS where: To connect DocuShare to the database, obtain the following information from your database administrator before installing DocuShare.
o Database SID
o Database Host Name
Tech Note: Oracle v.9i, the CLOB datatype must be enabled and the No Sort option disabled to work with DocuShare. Check the DocuShare Knowledge Base at http://www.xerox.com/docushare/support for details.
o DB2 v8.1 or v8.2—the database must be installed and functioning. You can create and define the DB2 tablespace or if selected, can be created and defined by the DocuShare installer.
To connect DocuShare to the database, obtain the following information from your database
administrator before installing DocuShare.
· Database User Name
· Database User Password
· Database Port
· Regular tablespace Name; System temporary tablespace; Large tablespace name (optional); Index tablespace name (optional)—all tablespaces must have 32K bufferpools.
· Database SID
· Database Host Name
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Servers
· SunOne/Sun Java Directory Server 5.2 and S5.1 with SP1
· Microsoft Active Directory on Windows 2000 Server SP3
· Microsoft 2003 Server with current updates
· Novell eDirectory v8.7.3.7 (version 8.7.3 with Patch 7) or v8.8
Solution Published: January 4th, 2012
Solution ID: 1012