System requirements and product compatibility

This section describes the hardware and software requirements for installing BMC Reporting Foundation. For more information about additional requirements for the particular BMC reporting solution set that you are installing, see the following table:

Supported BMC Reporting products

Supported Versions	Where to find this information
BMC TrueSight Operations Management Reporting 10.7, 10.0	TrueSight Operations Management Reporting 10.7 TrueSight Operations Management Reporting 10.0
BMC TrueSight Reporting 9.6	BMC TrueSight Reporting 9.6 Home
BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Reporting 9.6	BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Reporting 9.6

You can install the BMC Reporting Foundation server components and Foundation database on either Windows or Solaris computers. However, the BMC Reporting Foundation Client Tools, a required administrative component, can be installed on only a Windows computer.

Note

Internet Protocol helper (IP helper) service is required for installing BMC Reporting Foundation 4.1 in a pure IPv6 environment on Microsoft Windows platform. Start the IP helper service before installing.

BMC Reporting Foundation 4.1 does not support pure IPv6 environment on Solaris platform.

Use the following table to locate information for each type of installation. Verify that the target computer meets the installation requirements listed in the appropriate table or tables.

Requirements for BMC Reporting Foundation components

Role	Operating system	Type of requirement	Requirements
Reporting server	Windows	Hardware	Hardware and software required for the Reporting server on Windows
	Windows	Software	Hardware and software required for the Reporting server on Windows
	Solaris	Hardware	Hardware required for the Reporting server on Solaris
	Solaris	Software	Software required for the Reporting server on Solaris
Report Viewer	Windows	Software	Browser support by Operating System
BMC Reporting Foundation Client Tools	Windows	Hardware and software	Requirements for the BMC Reporting Foundation Client Tools computer

Requirements for the Reporting server computer

You can install the Reporting server on a Solaris or Windows computer. Most of the Business Objects software is installed here.

If this computer is a different system from the computer hosting the solution database host server, you must install the database client software on the computer for connecting to the solution database. For example, BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Reporting contains the Oracle database. If this database is on a remote host, Oracle client will be required.

For the Oracle client installer, contact your vendor.

The following table contains hardware and software requirements for installing required components for the Reporting server on Windows computers.

Hardware and software required for the Reporting server on Windows

Resource	Requirement	Comments
Operating systems	Windows Server 2008 x64 Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2	The server cannot be configured as either a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) or a BDC (Backup Domain Controller). Reporting foundation server component only supports 64 bit Windows operating systems.
CPU	Intel Pentium 4 processor or equivalent	A minimum of 2 GHz processing speed is required.
RAM	16 GB or more	32 GB is recommended
Disk space used after installation	15 GB hard disk space
Ports	Business Objects needs a series of ports for its use; they must not be in use by any other process. The Apache Tomcat software must have unique port numbers for their use which are not in use by any other processes.	Default ports used while installation are: SIA 6410 CMS 6400 Tomcat: 8080, 8005, 8443 Subversion Repository 3690
Others	Windows .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Windows installation program 4.5 are required.
Document viewer	Adobe Acrobat 9.0 or later

The following table and the following table contain hardware and software requirements for installing required components for the Reporting server on Solaris computers.

Hardware required for the Reporting server on Solaris

Resource	Requirement	Comments
CPU	Sun UltraSPARC T2
Disk space used after installation	15 GB
RAM	16 GB or more

Software required for the Reporting server on Solaris

Resource	Requirement	Comments
Operating systems	Solaris 10 SPARC Solaris 11 SPARC	Patches released after the minimum required patch may be used. However, they are not officially tested.
Packages required for Solaris 11	pkg:/SUNWbash - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/SUNWgzip - minimum version: 1.3.5-0.133 pkg:/SUNWlibC - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/SUNWmfrun - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/compatibility/ucb - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 pkg:/SUNWuiu8 - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/SUNWxcu4 - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/SUNWxwice - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/SUNWxwplt - minimum version: 0.5.11-0.133 pkg:/SUNWzlib - minimum version: 1.2.3-0.133	Before installing SAP Business Intelligence platform on Solaris 11, you must install these packages.
Decompression software	Unrar utility	BMC recommends using the unrar utility for decompressing the install files.
Other	Business Objects Client Tools	The Client Tools are required to use BMC Reporting Foundation and must be installed on a Windows computer.
Document viewer	Adobe Acrobat 9.0 or later
Kernel parameters	project.max-msg-ids: 128 project.max-shm-memory: 1073741824 project.max-shm-ids: 128 project.max-sem-ids: 256	The values mentioned are the recommended minimum value for the parameters.
Ports	Business Objects needs a series of ports for its use; they must not be in use by any other process. The Apache Tomcat software must have unique port numbers for their use which are not in use by any other processes.	Default ports used while installation are: SIA 6410 CMS 6400 Tomcat: 8080, 8005, 8443 DB2 50000 HTTP 6405 Repository 3690

Requirements for the BMC Reporting Foundation Client Tools computer

The following table contains hardware and software requirements for installing required components for the BMC Reporting Foundation Client Tools on Windows computers.

Requirements for the BMC Reporting Foundation Client Tools computer

Resource	Requirements	Comments
CPU	AMD/Intel x86	2.0 GHz Core CPU
Operating systems	Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Windows 8 Windows 8.1	BusinessObjects BI desktop components are 32-bit, however they can be used on 64-bit operating systems.
Disk space used after installation	8 GB
RAM	2 GB or more
Document viewer	Adobe Acrobat 9.0 or later	Business Objects documentation is installed with the Client Tools.

Browser support and Communication protocols

The following table contains browser support for the computer used to view reports.

Browser support by Operating System

		Windows Server				Windows Desktop
Web Browser	Java	2008 SP2 x64	2008 R2 SP1 x64	2012 x64	2012 R2	Windows 7 SP1	Windows 8	Windows 8.1
Internet Explorer 8	Oracle JRE 6, 7	Y	Y	N	N	Y	N	N
Internet Explorer 9	Oracle JRE 6, 7	Y	Y	N	N	Y	N	N
Internet Explorer 10	Oracle JRE 6, 7	N	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N
Internet Explorer 11	Oracle JRE 7	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	Y
Google Chrome	Oracle JRE 6, 7	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Mozilla Firefox ESR 24.0.x	Oracle JRE 7	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

Note

Only 32-bit browsers are supported.

Communication protocols

Communication between Oracle and BMC Reporting Foundation uses the TCP/IP protocol. BMC Reporting Foundation uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for client communication.