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FlexNet Operations

One System for Managing All Software License Generators and Technologies

System Requirements

This document shows the technical specifications for FlexNet Operations On-Premise.

Server Requirements

It is recommended that each database and server be installed on a separate host. A full installation of FlexNet Operations with Reporting functionality would comprise at least 5 separate hosts.

Server Requirements (for each server)

For Windows

  • Pentium class computer with a processing speed of 2.8 GHz (or more)
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • At least 1GB free disk space.

For Linux:

  • Pentium class computer with a processing speed of 2.8 GHz (or more)
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • At least 1 GB free disk space.
  • Current directory (.) must be in the path of the user who starts FlexNet Operations (the FlexNet Platform Server)

For Solaris:

  • Sun Fire v440 (or greater) Server with two 1.2GHz Ultra SPARC IIIi processors
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • At least 1 GB free disk space
  • Current directory (.) must be in the path of the user who starts FlexNet Operations (the FlexNet Platform Server)
Supported Operating Systems

For FlexNet Operations Server:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (32-bit only)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (requires UAC disabled)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 or 5 (32-bit only)
  • Solaris 10
  • While not recommended for production use, we also support vmWare ESX Server

FlexNet Operations Reporting is supported on Windows only

Supported Databases

It is recommended that each database and server be installed on a separate host. A full installation of FlexNet Operations with Reporting functionality would comprise at least 5 separate hosts.

  • Oracle 10g or 11g Enterprise, Express or Standard Edition
  • SQL Server 2005 or 2008 Enterprise, Express or Standard Edition
Web Browsers
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later 
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
Java Client
  • Sun JRE version 1.5
FlexNet Licensing Module
  • FLEXlm v6 through v9
  • FlexNet Publisher 10.x
  • FlexNet Publisher 11.x up or later
  • FlexNet Embedded 1.0 or later 
Supported LDAP Directory Server
  • Windows 2000 Active Directory