Requirements

Operating system

Category	Requirement
Windows	Windows Server 2016 or higher
Linux	Kernel 2.6 or greater, glibc 2.14 or greater, minimal recommended version for Linux distributions (due to our software requirements): RedHat (7 or 8), CentOS (7), Debian (8), Ubuntu (14.04+), Amazon Linux AMI (2016.09+)

Minimal hardware

Category	Minimum	Advised
Number of rendition server(s)	1	2 (for high availability)
RAM	8GB	16GB
CPU (vCPU)	4	8
CPU type	64Bits	64Bits
Storage	20Go	The maximum between 20Go and a storage where a full day of temporary files can be stored

Port configuration

The ports of the different micro-services need to be free to use and are as follows:

Service	Protocols	Default listening port
Service broker	HTTP/HTTPS	8761
Distant file storage	HTTP	8081
Text handler	HTTP	8899
Renderer	HTTP	9091
Converter	HTTP	19999

Software requirement

Software	Requirement
Java Runtime	JRE 1.8 64 bits Minimum, OpenJDK 11 advised. Oracle JDK are supported, JRE IBM J9 is unsupported.
(Optional) Microsoft Office	Microsoft Office 2013 and up. Office 365 compatible if the server is connected to an internet connection. We recommend as well to keep Office up to date.

Software	Requirement
Java Runtime	JRE 1.8 64 bits Minimum, OpenJDK 11 advised. Oracle JDK are supported, JRE IBM J9 is unsupported.

If the JVM used is not 64 bits, the rendition will now stop its boot and warn in the logs/console that the version of the JVM used is incorrect.

Access rights

For the installation

The user must have the rights to create the rendition folder.
The user must have the necessary rights to create a service.

For the launch

The user that runs the service needs to have access to the files into the Rendition folder and the required third party softwares, as well as execution rights.

Antivirus configuration

Deactivate the scan of ARender Rendition tmp folder.