System requirements

These are the prerequisites for the EPICS archiver appliance.

• A recent version of Linux, definitely 64 bit Linux for production systems. If using RedHat, we should aim for RedHat 6.1.

• JDK 1.16+ - definitely the 64 bit version for production systems. We need the JDK, not the JRE.

• A recent version of Tomcat 11.x; preferably apache-tomcat-11.0.12 or later.

• The management UI works best with a recent version of Firefox or Chrome.

• By default, the EPICS archiver appliance uses a bundled versions of the Java CA and PVA libraries from EPICS base.

Optionally, we’d need

• A recent version of MySQL mysql-5.1 or later if persisting configuration to a database. We hope to add Postgres support soon.

In terms of hardware, for production systems, we’d need a reasonably powerful server box with lots of memory for each appliance. For example, we use 24 core machines with 128GB of memory and 15K SAS drives for medium term storage.