Requirements

Architecture

Each Rendition installation should be done on a dedicated server.

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.
Warning
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.