System requirements

This section lists the hardware requirements and the supported operating systems for the Smart Analytics servers.

Hardware requirements

Quick installation

  • 64 GB RAM (8 GB minimum)
  • 8 Core (a minimum of 4 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above)
  • 500 GB disk

Advanced installation

For the Smart Analytics proxy server (including DIH, DAH, community, category, agentstore, view, and one second-level DIH and DAH), one Hot Topic Analytics content, and two sets of Smart Search content:

  • 64 GB RAM (8 GB minimum)
  • 8 Core (a minimum of 4 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above)
  • 500 GB disk

Here is the description of the components for the Smart Analytics proxy server.

Component Description
DIH (Distributed Index Handler) Allows you to efficiently split and index extremely large quantities of data into multiple Smart Analytics servers, in order to create a completely scalable solution that delivers high performance and high availability. It provides a flexible way of transparently batching, routing, and categorizing the indexing of internal and external content into Smart Analytics main server.
DAH (Distributed Action Handler) Distributes actions to multiple versions of Smart Analytics main server or a component. It allows you to use failover, load balancing, or distributed content.
Community A Smart Analytics main server component that manages users and communities.
Agentstore Smart Analytics main server stores agents and categories in the Agentstore component.
Category A Smart Analytics main server component that manages categorization and clustering
View A Smart Analytics main server component that converts files in a repository to HTML formats for viewing in a Web browser.

For each content or image server:

  • 4 GB RAM
  • A minimum of 2 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above
  • 100 GB disk

For each connector and CES and OMNI Group server:

  • 2 GB RAM
  • CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above
  • 20 GB disk
Installation template Hardware requirements
Basic
  • 64 GB RAM (8 GB minimum)
  • 8 Core (a minimum of 4 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above)
  • 500 GB disk
All in one
  • 64 GB RAM (8 GB minimum)
  • 8 Core (a minimum of 4 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above)
  • 600 GB disk
Distributed IDOL content server
  • 4 GB RAM
  • A minimum of 2 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above
  • 100 GB disk
Distributed image server
  • 4 GB RAM
  • A minimum of 2 dedicated CPU - XEON 3 GHz or above
  • 100 GB disk

Supported operating systems

For the information about supported operating systems, see Service Manager 9.41 Support Matrix.