System Requirements:

• Hardware Requirements:

  1. Middleware or Database Server

  • Computer with dual core processor with 2 GHz or faster clock speed, or single core processor with 3 GHz or faster clock speed. Multi-core processor recommended for optimal performance.
  • 8 GB or more of RAM recommended, 4 GB of RAM minimum.
  • 300-GB Disk with RAID support for data. The amount of disk space necessary depends on the frequency of data collected (number of work orders, operations, production quantities, etc.) and the amount of data kept online in the production database..
  • Depending on complexity and size of the database server, 30 GB or more of available disk space is recommended. The database hard disk space should be enough to support the storage and performance requirements for your particular deployment.

2. MES Web Application Server

• • Computer with 2 GHz or faster processor clock speed.
  • 8 GB or more of RAM recommended, 4 GB of RAM minimum.

3. All Systems (Client Applications)

• • 30 GB (minimum) hard drive
  • Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution video adapter and monitor
  • CD-ROM or DVD drive, or access to a network share or portable media device that contains the installation files
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse or compatible pointing device

4. Minimum Hardware Requirements for Supported Windows Versions

The following additional minimum hardware might be required based on the version of Windows being used.

See your specific Microsoft operating system hardware requirements for details.

• Software Requirements:

This section lists the AVEVA and other third-party software requirements to install MES 2017 R2:

• • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 is required for all components. If the required version of .NET Framework is not installed, it will be installed during the MES installation. Note that Windows 10 versions prior to version 1607 will fail to install .NET Framework 4.7.1.
  • If installing MES Web Portal, the following are required:
    • Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.5.
    • Microsoft Web Deploy tool.
    • MES Web Portal is compatible with version 8.0.3 of newtonsoft.json.dll.
  • If installing MES application objects, the following are required:
    • The Entity Model Builder feature requires ArchestrA Integrated Development Environment (ArchestrA IDE).
    • The Utilization Capability Object (UCO) and Operations Capability Object (OCO) require Microsoft Message Queue for their asynchronous calls.

1. Web Browsers Supported for MES Web Portal Client

The MES Web Portal client has been validated with the following web browsers, using the web browser versions that were available at the time of the MES 2017 R2 release:

• • • Chrome
    • Edge
    • Firefox
    • Internet Explorer 11

2. Database Requirements

Supported Microsoft SQL Server Versions

Requirements

• • • The MES 2017 R2 release requires SQL Server 2012 or greater as it makes use of SQL functionality added in that release.
    • SQL Server should be configured for TCP/IP for local connections. SQL Server should also be configured for TCP/IP for remote connections if servers that require access to the MES database, such as the MES middleware server or the Reports server, are on remote machines. If you use SQL Server, make sure it is installed using a case-insensitive collation.
    • Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator and IIS 6.0 or later.
    • MES Database using multiple languages requires AL32UTF8 Unicode character set installed on your server.

Recommendations

• • • For proper database maintenance, use an SQL Enterprise version due to the availability of online indexing capability.

3. Operating System Requirements

The following table lists the operating systems that are supported and can be installed on computers that run MES 2017 R2.

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