Symbio system requirements. Version 4.x

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Symbio system requirements

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Symbio system requirements

2 Content

1 Symbio Client ... 3 1.1 Overview ... 3 1.2 Symbio Client ... 3

1.2.1 Minimum hardware requirements ... 3

1.2.2 Recommended hardware requirements ... 3

1.2.3 Software requirements ... 4

1.3 Symbio Publishing (Viewer) ... 4

1.3.1 Browser support matrix ... 4

1.4 Symbio Document (Viewer) ... 5

1.5 Symbio Modeling Client (Editor) ... 5

1.6 Symbio for MS SharePoint ... 6

1.6.1 Hardware requirements ... 6

1.6.2 Common SharePoint requirements ... 6

1.7 Symbio for ARIS ... 7

1.7.1 Hardware requirements ... 8

2 Symbio Web ... 9

2.1 Overview ... 9

2.1.1 Single server installation... 9

2.1.2 Two server installation ... 9

2.2 Minimum hardware requirements ... 10

2.3 Minimum software requirements ... 10

2.4 Minimum requirements for client computers ... 11

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3 1 Symbio Client

1.1 Overview

Symbio Client provides several installation scenarios. Currently, these installations are included:

 Symbio Standard (including Symbio Client Application, Symbio Publishing, Symbio Document and Symbio Modeling Client)

 Symbio Full (including Symbio Standard and Symbio Workshop Scanner, Symbio Eden)

 Symbio Modeling Client only

 Custom installation

This article describes the hardware and software requirements for Symbio Client for all scenarios. Important: The information in this article apply to Symbio Client only. Other listed products in this article have their own software and hardware requirements. Please contact the manufacturer of the specified product in order to get more information.

1.2 Symbio Client

The description of the hardware and software requirements for Symbio Client include Symbio Publishing, Symbio Document, Symbio Workshop Scanner and Symbio Eden.

1.2.1 Minimum hardware requirements

Installation Scenario Deployment type and scale

RAM Processor Hard disk space

Symbio Standard Administration user installation 2 GB 32-bit, 1 core, 1.5 GHz 1 GB plus space depending on data Symbio Workshop Scanner Administration user installation add. 1 GB 32-bit, 1 core, 1.5 GHz 1 GB plus space depending on data

Symbio Eden Process author installation 32-bit, 1 core, 1.5 GHz 1 GB plus space depending on data

The disk space required is based on the following properties:

 Symbio Client Application: how much content is in in your databases

 Symbio Publishing: how much content is to publish

 Symbio Document: how much content is to publish

1.2.2 Recommended hardware requirements

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and scale Symbio standard Administration user installation 4 GB 64-bit, 2 core, 2 GHz 1 GB plus space depending on data Symbio Workshop Scanner Administration user installation 64-bit, 2 core, 2 GHz 1 GB plus space depending on data

Symbio Eden Process author installation 64-bit, 2 core, 2 GHz 1 GB plus space depending on data

The disk space required is based on the following properties:

 Symbio Client Application: how much content is in in your databases

 Symbio Publishing: how much content is to publish

 Symbio Document: how much content is to publish

1.2.3 Software requirements

The common software requirements for Symbio Client installation are.

 MS Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or MS Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2

 Microsoft .NET Framework version 4 (Client Profile for Symbio Client Application, Full Profile for Symbio Publishing) or 4.5

The additional software requirements for Symbio Publishing are.

 Occasional virus scan folder exclusions (e. g. McAfee)

 Read- and write access to the following folders: o C:\Windows\assembly\*.*

o C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\*.* o <Symbio installation folder>\*.*

o C:\ProgramData\SymbioSuite\*.* (Shortcut %ProgramData%) (Windows 7 and higher) o C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Symbio_*\*.*

o C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\tmp*.tmp

For large databases, we strictly recommend to use automated publishing on a 64-bit system!

1.3 Symbio Publishing (Viewer)

Symbio Publishing use HTML, VML/SVG, CSS and JavaScript, but no Java (Java Applets).

1.3.1 Browser support matrix

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Browser Supported Basic support Not supported

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 X (V 4.3 a higher) Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 X

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 X

Mozilla Firefox 17 ESR or higher X

Apple Safari for Windows X

Apple Safari for Mac OS X

Google Chrome X

1.4 Symbio Document (Viewer)

Symbio Document creates RTF, DOC or DOCX files, based on a RTF template document (that contains formatting and tags of an interpreted language).

1.4.1 Software requirements

The software requirements to customize Symbio Document template documents are:

 MS Office or MS Word 2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013 to customize template files

No additional installation is required to customize Symbio Document template documents. The software requirements for all Symbio Document generated documents are:

 MS Office, MS Word or MS Word Reader 2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013 to view DOC files

 MS Office, MS Word or MS Word Reader 2007, 2010 or 2013 to view DOCX files

 PDF reader to view PDF files

 Other office or text processing software with more (Open Office / Libree Office) or less

(SoftMaker Office, Textmaker) limitations

No additional installation is required to use Symbio Document generated documents.

1.5 Symbio Modeling Client (Editor)

Symbio Modeling Client consists of MS Excel files and a “Layouter-DLL” that contains all additional functionality not provided by MS Excel or MS Windows operating system. Symbio Modeling Client neither reconfigures the MS Excel user interface nor any functional capabilities.

1.5.1 Software requirements

The common software requirements for all Symbio Modeling Client are:

 MS Office or MS Excel 2007, 2010 or 2013 32 bit edition (2003 with additional effort and

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 Availability of the “Layouter-DLL” via default search path (Symbio 4.0 … 4.2) or Program Data\Symbio Suite path (Symbio 4.3 and higher)

Except the limited permission to place a DLL into the default search path (Symbio 4.0 … 4.2), no additional installation is required to use Symbio Modeling Client.

1.6 Symbio for MS SharePoint

Symbio for MS SharePoint can have different scales:

 Symbio Modeling Clients, managed by MS SharePoint

 Symbio Publishing, hosted by MS SharePoint o SharePoint Template

o SharePoint ExternHTML Template

 automated data exchange between Symbio Client and SharePoint

1.6.1 Hardware requirements

There are no specific hardware requirements for Symbio Modeling Clients, managed by SharePoint.

The hardware requirements for Symbio Publishing, hosted by SharePoint, are:

 additional hard drive space to buffer the web during web publishing A dedicated Windows Server for Symbio for SharePoint is recommend.

If Publishing is done with SharePoint ExternHTML-Template an additional IIS to host the web(s) is required. It is possible to use dedicated servers for SharePoint and IIS. And it is possible to share one server for Symbio for SharePoint and IIS.

1.6.2 Common SharePoint requirements

Please see MS recommendations for MS SharePoint hardware and software requirements to setup a MS SharePoint server/farm.

The common requirements for all scales require:

 a technical user to administrate SharePoint and to upload/download documents

 a dedicated SharePoint Site

 a dedicated document library for every dedicated data set

 unrestricted data traffic between involved systems (if necessary: firewall configuration, trusted relationships, certificates, …).

To provide comfortable upload/download for only a view documents, the WebDAV interface is recommended.

To provide fast and comfortable upload/download for many documents, the WebDAV interface in collaboration with robocopy.exe is recommended.

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Alternatively MS SharePoint “Client Object Model” in collaboration with Ploetz + Zeller’s

MossConnector.exe is recommended. Additionally this configuration can handle check in/check out and document property manipulation.

Another alternative is a server-site upload/download service, that can be achieved by MS SharePoint “Server Object Model” in collaboration with PowerShell scripts.

1.6.3 Software requirements

The software requirements for Symbio Modeling Clients, managed by SharePoint, are:

 a SharePoint document library for every dedicated data set

 MS SharePoint 2010 + MS Office 2010, 2013

 MS SharePoint 2013 + MS Office 2013

 (MS SharePoint 2007 + MS Office 2007 with additional effort and limitations)

 (MS SharePoint 2010 + MS Office 2007 with additional effort and limitations)

 (MS SharePoint 2013 + MS Office 2007, 2010 with additional effort and limitations) All MS Office versions in 32 bit edition.

The software requirements for Symbio Publishing with SharePoint Template, hosted by SharePoint, are:

 a SharePoint document library for every dedicated web

 MS SharePoint 2010 + MS Internet Explorer 8 or 10

 MS SharePoint 2013 + MS Internet Explorer 10 or 11

Mind, that a large amount of small files must be uploaded to a SharePoint document library.

The software requirements for Symbio Publishing with SharePoint ExternHTML Template, hosted by SharePoint, are:

 a IIS web site for every dedicated web

 MS Internet Explorer

 Mind, that a large amount of small files must be transferred to a IIS web site.

The software requirements for automated data exchange between Symbio Client and SharePoint are.

 MS SharePoint 2010 + Client Object Model + additional document library columns

 MS SharePoint 2013 + Client Object Model + additional document library columns

1.7 Symbio for ARIS

Symbio for ARIS can have different scales:

 Symbio for ARIS XML interface

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 Symbio for ARIS automated data exchange

1.7.1 Hardware requirements

All Symbio for ARIS scales require additional space to buffer the interchanged and produced data. This can range from 10 MB for a Symbio Modeling Client via 100 MB … 400 MB for intermediate ARIS XML files to > 10 GB for published webs.

1.7.2 Software requirements

The software requirements for Symbio for ARIS XML interface are.

 ARIS 6.2, 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 for Symbio 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

 ARIS 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 9.6 or 9.7 for Symbio 4.4

Mind that some ARIS patch level are buggy (e.g. ARIS 7.2.4.741369 (SR 2012_04) or ARIS 7.2.4.746019 (SR 2013_04b)) and will not work properly.

Mind that ARIS 9.x Architect requires extra licensing for the ARIS XML interface (both - GUI XML interface and Report XML interface are affected), that has been included in ARIS 6.x and 7.x Toolset/Architect licenses.

This section provides the software requirements for Symbio for ARIS dialog and Symbio for ARIS automated data exchange.

 ARIS single seat installation 6.2, 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 for Symbio 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

 ARIS single seat installation 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 9.6 or 9.7 for Symbio 4.4

 ARIS C/S installation 6.2, 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 for Symbio 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4

 Mind that some ARIS patch level are buggy (e.g. ARIS 7.2.4.741369 (SR 2012_04) or ARIS 7.2.4.746019 (SR 2013_04b)) and will not work properly.

In case of an ARIS C/S installation there are additional requirements:

 a MS Windows based ARIS Server installation (The ARIS Server’s database server can be a dedicated non-MS Windows server.)

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9 2 Symbio Web

2.1 Overview

Symbio Web provides several installation scenarios. Currently, these installations include a single server with a local SQL Server and a two-server installation with a web server and a database server. This article describes the hardware and software requirements for Symbio Web in each of the two scenarios.

Important: The information in this article apply to Symbio Web only. Other listed products in this article have their own software and hardware requirements. Please contact the manufacturer of the specified product in order to get more information.

2.1.1 Single server installation

Web server with local database

 Web pages

 Local services

 Different plugins for different needs

 Multitenancy

 Local SQL Server database

2.1.2 Two server installation

Web server

 Web pages

 Local services

 Different plugins for different needs

 Multitenancy

 Local SQL Server database

Database server

 Hosts the Symbio databases

 Can be mirrored or clustered

 To increase performance and capacity consider adding disks to the database server or adding database servers (depending on the bottleneck)

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10 2.2 Minimum hardware requirements

The values in the following table are minimum values for installations on a single server with a local database and for web and database servers in a two-server installation.

Installation Scenario Deployment type and scale

RAM Processor Hard disk space

Single server Development or evaluation installation 4 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 1 GB plus space depending on data

Single server Production deployment 12 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 5 GB plus space depending on data Two server – web server Development or evaluation installation 4 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 1 GB plus space depending on data Two server – web server Production deployment 12 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 5 GB plus space depending on data Two server – database server Development or evaluation installation 4 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 1 GB plus space depending on data Two server – database server Production deployment 8 GB 64-bit, 4 cores 5 GB plus space depending on data

Hard disk space depends on how much content that you have in your deployment.

2.3 Minimum software requirements

This section provides minimum software requirements for each server.

Minimum requirements for database server including local database server in case of single server deployment:

 One of the following:

o 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (recommended) For more information about requirements please visit

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506(v=sql.120).aspx

o 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012

For more information about requirements please visit

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o 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 For more information about requirements please visit

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506(v=sql.105).aspx

Minimum requirements for a web server or single server:

 One of the following:

o 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard/Datacenter (recommended) o 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise,

or Datacenter

 Web Server (IIS) role

 Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5.1 or 4.5.2

2.4 Minimum requirements for client computers

This section provides minimum software requirements for a client computer in order to work with Symbio.

2.4.1 Browser support matrix

The following table summarizes the support levels of typically used web browsers

Browser Supported Basic support Not supported

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 X Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 X Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 X

Mozilla Firefox 17 ESR or higher X

Apple Safari for Windows X

Apple Safari for Mac OS X

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