Specifications

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Reduce your inventory of managed devices to 300, or fewer, prior to upgrading.
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Choose not to migrate your database when performing the upgrade installation. After the upgrade
installation, you will need to re-create an inventory by discovering or adding devices (for
information about discovering and adding devices, see the Ridgeline Reference Guide.)
System Requirements
The following sections specify the system requirements for installing and running Ridgeline 4.0.
Please check the most current version of the Ridgeline Release Notes for any additional or changed
requirements for the Ridgeline release that you are installing.
Windows Vista/XP/2003 Server/2008 Server/Windows 7
The Ridgeline Server
The system requirements for the Ridgeline server on Microsoft Windows are:
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Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional with SP1 or later, Windows 2003 server,
Windows 2008 server, or Windows 7 running on an Intel Pentium-compatible CPU.
Note
The Windows platform 32-bit version of Ridgeline 4.0 can be installed on any Windows
platform listed above only if it has a 32-bit processor and operating system. The 64-bit
version of Ridgeline 4.0 can only be installed on Intel-based 64-bit systems for the 64-bit
Windows platforms listed above. If you try to install 64-bit Ridgeline 4.0 on Itanium- or
AMD-based 64-bit machines, you may get an error message.
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4 GB RAM with SWAP set to 1.5 times the RAM
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2 GB disk space available, NTFS filesystem recommended.
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1 GHz or greater Pentium-compatible processor (2 GHz or greater recommended).
The Ridgeline server software requires the installation of Oracle/Sun JRE 1.6.0_25 (or later). The
Oracle/Sun JRE 1.6.0_25 is included in the server installation and is the version we recommend you
use.
Note
Additional disk space may be needed to hold alarm logs and other runtime data. The amount
of space depends on the number of devices and the number of traps and syslog messages
generated by the managed devices.
The Ridgeline Client
The system requirements for the Ridgeline client on Microsoft Windows are:
Installation Overview
Ridgeline Installation and Upgrade Guide 6