System requirements for Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console, version 8.5.1

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This document provides details of the system requirements for Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console on all supported operating systems.

The topics included are:

• Supported operating systems
• Software requirements
• Hardware requirements

For more information about memory requirements for a maximum number of concurrent Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console users, see IBM Tivoli Workload Automation 8.5.1 Performance &Scale Cookbook.

To download the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console electronic images go to the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console download page.

To view the Release Notes, go to the Release Notes page.

To access the Tivoli Workload Scheduler documentation, see the online Information Center

This section lists the operating systems supported at the time of the general availability of the product. To see an up-to-date list of the supported operating systems that were certified after the general availability, use the following link: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/Tivoli_Supported_Platforms.html

The section contains the following topics:

• Supported operating systems
• Supported operating systems for the bundled application server

Supported operating systems

Table 2 identifies the operating systems that are supported by the console (where the support is not full, details are supplied in the notes).

Supported operating systems for the bundled application server

All operating systems supported by Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console are supported by the bundled application server, which is IBM WebSphere™ Application Server, V6.1 EmbeddedExpress version with Fix Pack FP0000023. It is installed automatically. In the information relating to hardware and memory requirements in this document, the application server is treated as part of Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console, and its requirements are not listed separately.

Note:

The embedded WebSphere Application Server is provided solely for use with Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console (see the product license for details). This version has no limit on the number of CPUs on which it can be installed.

Topics:

• Software requirements for Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console
• Software requirements for the bundled version of the embedded WebSphere Application Server
• System requirements for an external WebSphere Application Server
• Supported Browsers
• Software requirements for the Launchpad
• Supported LDAP Servers
• Support for Internet Protocol version 6

Software requirements for Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console

Table 3 lists the software requirements for each supported operating system.

Software requirements for the bundled version of the embedded WebSphere Application Server

The software requirements for the bundled version of the embedded WebSphere Application Server are included in the requirements for the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console on or with which it is installed.

System requirements for an external WebSphere Application Server

IBM WebSphere™ Application Server, V6.1 Base version with Fix Pack FP0000023 and IFPK91709, plus Fix Pack FP0000023 of Java SDK for WebSphere Application Server (also referred to as Java SDK 1.5 SR9 Cumulative Fix for WebSphere Application Server).

Supported Browsers

Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console 8.5.1 requires a supported Web browser. Use one of the following:

• Firefox 2.0, 3.0
• Internet Explorer 7.0

Note:

Internet Explorer 8 is supported in compatibility view mode, only.

Software requirements for the Launchpad

The Tivoli Workload Automation Launchpad is supported on all operating systems where Tivoli Workload Scheduler components can be installed.

It requires a supported Web browser. Use one of the following:

• Firefox 2.0
• Internet Explorer 6.0
• Mozilla 1.7
• SeaMonkey 1.1.4

These browsers are not all available on all platforms. Some of them might only be available in a special version from the manufacturer of your operating system. See Table 4 for details:

Table 4: Launchpad browsers

Notes

1. This information, plus other information about how to launch the launchpad, is provided, platform by platform, in a readme.txt file in the root of the Launchpad directory on each DVD or electronic download image. However, this document contains more up-to-date information than the readme files.
2. To resolve a problem on Firefox and Mozilla with the display of tooltips, obtain and install the "Long Titles" add-on from: Firefox add-ons: Long Titles 1.3.
3. The links to the Web sites indicated here are provided as a courtesy. They were correct when this document was published, but IBM cannot be held responsible if they change address or content, or are removed.
4. Browsers at a later level might run the Launchpad correctly, but have not been tested. This means, for example, that you might prefer to disable the update of Firefox V2.0 to V3.0, which is, by default, automatic on some platforms, because Firefox 3.0 is not explicitly supported.

Supported LDAP Servers

The following is a list of the LDAP servers supported by Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console:

• IBM Tivoli Directory Server 5.1, 5.2, or 6.0
• IBM z/OS® Security Server 1.4, 1.5, or 1.6
• IBM z/OS.e Security Server 1.4, 1.5, or 1.6
• Windows Active Directory 2003
• Sun ONE DS

Support for Internet Protocol version 6

Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in addition to IPv4. To help you in the transition from an IPv4 environment to a complete IPv6 environment, Tivoli Workload Scheduler provides IP dual-stack support. The product communicates using both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols simultaneously with other applications using IPv4 or IPv6.

Topics:

• Permanent disk space requirements
• Temporary space requirements
• Virtual memory swap space requirements
• Memory requirements

Permanent disk space requirements

Table 5 summarizes the minimum disk space requirements of the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console with embedded WebSphere Application Server on supported operating systems.

Note:

1. Space for integrated installation: A Tivoli Workload Scheduler component and the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console can be installed together in an integrated installation where they share, among other things, an instance of the embedded WebSphere Application Server. This integrated installation is called a Tivoli Workload Automation instance.

   The values indicated in Table 5 are for the installation of a Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console not integrated with the Tivoli Workload Scheduler, and include the instance of the embedded WebSphere Application Server.

The corresponding values for the installation of the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console integrated with the Tivoli Workload Scheduler or on an external WebSphere Application Server are shown in Table 6, which indicates the disk space required by the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console, not including the disk space required by WebSphere Application Server.

Table 6: Disk space (MB) required for integrated installation of a Tivoli Workload Scheduler and the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console

Operating system	Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console (not including WebSphere Application Server required space)
AIX	720
HP-UX	720
Linux	720
Solaris	720
Windows	720

Note that the values indicated in the above table show the disk space required by the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console alone. For the disk space required by WebSphere Application Server or by Tivoli Workload Scheduler, refer to the relevant documentation.

Temporary space requirements

Table 5 and Table 6 do not include the space requirements for the temporary installation files. These depend on the component you are installing, and are given in Table 7:

Virtual memory swap space requirements

Previous tables do not include the requirements for the virtual memory file (sometimes called page file or swap space). Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console requires a minimum of 1 GB of virtual memory swap space (recommended level is 2 GB) on the file system of any operating system.

Memory requirements

Table 8 summarizes the memory requirements for the various components, on all operating systems:

Note: The memory requirements indicated in these columns includes Tivoli Workload Scheduler memory requirements.

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