IDOL 24.1

# System Requirements

This section describes the software and hardware requirements to run IDOL.

## Basic Requirements

- To install IDOL services on Microsoft Windows operating systems, you must run the IDOL Server installer as a user with administrative privileges.

  NOTE: You do not require special privileges to run the IDOL Server installer on Linux operating systems, or to run IDOL components on any platform.

- You cannot run IDOL with restricted file system permissions (for example: disk quotas, file handle limits or memory limits).

- Your file system must permit file locking.

- Your network must support TCP/IP.

- If you run anti-virus software, back up software, or any other software that scans the file system on the machine that hosts IDOL components, ensure it does not monitor the IDOL directories, which can have a serious impact on IDOL performance. OpenText recommends that you use the component back up actions to back up your IDOL data.

  In addition some advanced anti-virus software can scan the network and might block some IDOL traffic, which can cause errors. Where possible, exempt the IDOL processes from this kind of network traffic analysis.

## Recommended Minimum Hardware Specifications

OpenText recommends the following minimum hardware specifications for servers running IDOL components.

- a dedicated SCSI disk

- 4 GB RAM

- 100 GB Disk

- a minimum of 2 dedicated CPU - Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron or above

## C and C++ Runtime Libraries

- To run IDOL on Microsoft Windows, you might need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package. The IDOL Server installer includes the required redistributable files for Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 and 2017. You can also update your packages by using the latest version at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2019667.

- To run IDOL on Linux, the server must have the following minimum versions of libraries:

  - GLIBC_2.17
  - GLIBCXX_3.4.29
  - GCC_4.8.0

  NOTE: The IDOL installer and component stand-alone zip packages provide these libraries in the `libgcc_s` and `libstdc++` shared libraries.

  If you start components from the command line (rather than using the init script), you might need to set the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` to include the `InstallDir/common` and `InstallDir/common/runtimes` directories, to ensure that the component can access the installed shared libraries.

  You can also copy the shared libraries to the component working directory.

## Software Dependencies

Some IDOL components depend on specific third-party software.

Component | Dependencies
--- | ---
Find | Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 or 11
IDOL Data Admin | Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 or 11
IDOL Eduction Java SDK | Java Development Kit (JDK) 8
IDOL Eduction .NET SDK | .NET implementation supporting .NET Standard 2.0
IDOL NiFi Ingest | Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 11
IDOL Site Admin | Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 or 11
MMAP | Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 or 11

## Supported Web Browsers

IDOL front-end interfaces support the following web browsers:

- Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
- Chrome (latest version)

Find additionally supports:

- Microsoft Edge (latest version)

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Version 24.1 | Last updated December 2023

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Product: IDOL 24.1

Topic Title: System Requirements