System requirements

Operating systems

This product supports the following operating systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, 6.0, and 6.2 x86-64
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, SP1, x86-64

None

Port

8080 is the default port of the server on which BMC Release Process Management is installed.

If for some reason you are unable to use the default port 8080, then you can change it at the time of installation by using the installation utility.

Disk space

• 2 GB disk space for installing the BMC Release Process Management product
• Approximately 350 MB of database space for every 5,000 requests created
• Approximately 350 MB space for automation-related data for every 5,000 requests created

• The disk space might vary, depending on the size of your environment.
• The space requirements for database and automation-related data are in addition to the 2 GB space required for installing the product.

Databases

• Oracle 11g Release 1 (64-bit)

• Oracle 11g Release 2 (64-bit)

• PostgreSQL 8.2.x, 8.4.x

• MSSQL 2008 SP1, R2

• Dynamic ports are not supported for Microsoft SQL.
• For Oracle, set the following permissions on your database user:
  CREATE USER RPMUSR 
  PROFILE DEFAULT IDENTIFIED BY <password> 
  DEFAULT TABLESPACE RPMUSR 
  TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP ACCOUNT UNLOCK
  GRANT CONNECT TO RPMUSR
  GRANT RESOURCE TO RPMUSR
  GRANT CREATE VIEW TO RPMUSR
  GRANT UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO RPMUSR

Web browsers

• Internet Explorer versions 7, 8, and 9
• Mozilla Firefox versions 11.2 to 15

BMC does not support versions of Firefox that do not support the Flash plug-in. The Flash plug-in is required for running this product.

Integration support

This product supports integrations with the following products:

• BMC Remedy IT Service Management versions 7.6.04 SP2
• BMC Atrium Orchestrator 7.6.01.04 and 7.6.02
• BMC Application Automation 8.0.00, 8.1.00, and 8.2.00
• BMC VaraLogix Q Deployment Automation 4.3.00

• BMC Remedy IT Service Management with BMC Remedy Release Management module required only if you are already using this product to manage your release cycles and if you plan to integrate it with the BMC Release Process Management product.

  Note

  To successfully integrate BMC Remedy IT Service Management with the BMC Release Process Management product, you must install and configure BMC Atrium Orchestrator.

   

• BMC Application Automation is required only if you are already using this product to manage your application deployments and if you plan to integrate it with the BMC Release Process Management product.