Specifications

3. Installing and running Switch

3.1 Getting ready to run Switch

System requirements

Resources

By itself Switch doesn’t require a lot of resources.

You can find the system requirements on the Enfocus website

http://www.enfocus.com/contentpage.php?id=5507 by navigating to [your Switch Flavor] >

System Requirements

However Switch usually drives a number of processes that require substantial additional

resources:

• Disk space for (potentially large) jobs as they are being moved along a flow or after they have

been archived.

• Network bandwidth for email and FTP communication.

• Processor time, disk I/O capacity, memory and disk space for third-party applications.

The resource requirements for these processes must be estimated separately.

Multi-processor systems

Switch is heavily multi-threaded and takes full advantage of multi-processor systems, both for

its internal operation and when driving external processes.

Configurators

While most configurators are provided for all supported operating systems, this is not always

possible because the corresponding third-party application may not be available (or may not

support an automation interface) on all systems.

The configurators come in packs so that a user can manage (install/ delete/ update) them at any

time in a user friendly way and without running a Switch installer.

See Version requirements for third-party applications on page 183 for details.

Installing Switch

Locating the installer from a trial or product DVD

1. Insert the DVD in the DVD drive of your system

2. On Windows: the DVD wizard appears and shows you the content of the DVD. Follow the steps

in the wizard to find the installer

3. On Mac OS: locate the installer application. The name of the installer depends on the flavor

of Switch being installed:

Enfocus Switch 10