eg software environment

An eg work manager® Client PC requires a workstation with a specification similar to or better than the following:

  • Intel or AMD 1Ghz (or better) processor
  • Windows® XP Professional (SP2)
  • 256 Mb RAM minimum
  • LAN card (IP address does not need to be static)
  • Colour monitor with XGA (1024 x 768) support
  • Local or Network Printer

Server Environment

Two environments are normally recommended to support the eg principles of operational management® project in accordance with the accepted good IT practices:

  • Production
  • Pre-production

This design does not specify requirements for availabilty, recoverability or disaster recovery or environments that are required to support particular application management and support practices such as Systems Integration and Load Testing.

Production environment server specification for eg work manager®:

Item Vol Comment
XEON/OPTERON Processor, Quad Processor (quad core), 16 Gigabyte RAM, 18 Gb internal local storage, 184 Gb database storage (may be local or SAN, required for each database server) 1 eg work manager®
Windows 2003 Standard 32 bit 1  
SQL Server 2005 Standard per processor 4 Note: Only the standard edition is required to support the eg work manager® and eg operational intelligence® applications but specific deployment features, clustering for example, may require enterprise versions
Internet Information Server 0  
.Net Framework 2.0 0  

Production environment server specification for eg operational intelligence®:

Item Vol Comment
XEN/OPTERON Processor, Quad Processor (quad core), 16 Gigabyte RAM, 18 Gb internal local storage, 266 Gb database storage (may be local or SAN, required for each database) 1 eg operational intelligence®
Windows 2003 Standard 32 bit 1  
SQL Server 2005 Standard per processor   Note: Only the standard edition is required to support the eg work manager® and eg operational intelligence® applications but specific deployment features, clustering for example, may require enterprise versions
Internet Information Server 1  
.Net Framework 1