The Contrast application for Enterprise on Premises (EOP) includes a Tomcat servlet container, a MySQL database instance and an Oracle Hotspot Java Virtual Machine. All of these components are embedded within the installation binary and deployed to a single server as part of the Contrast architecture. You should prepare the following prior to installing the application:
- System with adequate compute and memory resources based on guidance from our sizing recommendations
- Adherence to the system requirements specified below
- Installation of the MySQL run-time libraries (Linux Only)
| Category | Minimum | Recommended | Description |
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| OS Architecture | 64-bit | 64-bit | Due to memory requirements, the Contrast application can only run on 64-bit architectures. |
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Any modern Operating System should run Contrast. Contrast officially supports the following:
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| Java | 1.8 | 1.8 | |
| MySQL | 5.6.28 | 5.6.33 | MySQL versions 5.7 and higher are currently not supported |
To run Contrast, you must preconfigure your base operating system on Linux with a shared library for running MySQL. Depending on which flavor of Linux you deployed with Contrast, follow the installation options below:
Customers running Centos or RHL:
[contrast@myserver ~]# yum install libaio
Customers running Ubuntu or Debian:
[contrast@myserver ~]# apt-get install libaio1 libaio-dev