Requirements for Operating System Settings

This section contains requirements for operating system settings necessary for Foresight Analytics Platform. Meeting these requirements will ensure proper installation and work of Foresight Analytics Platform.

Requirements for Settings before Installing Foresight Analytics Platform.

Before installing Foresight Analytics Platform check:

System time at the server and client computer. If required, correct it before installing Foresight Analytics Platform.

IMPORTANT. It is prohibited to change the system time on the client computer or server, if Prognoz Platform or Foresight Analytics Platform. System time change leads to cancellation of any license.

Administrator permissions. Administrator permissions are required to install Foresight Analytics Platform Desktop Application, BI Server and Web Application, DBMS Back End and License Server.
Depending on the Windows operating system:

Server Windows operating system: the Web Server role. On installing BI server and web application to server Windows operating system add the Web Server role
Windows client operating system: Internet Information Services. On installing BI server and the web application to Windows client operating system, connect Internet Information Services

In Linux operating system:

The Tmpfs temporary file storage. If operating system uses Tmpfs and the size of operating memory is lower than recommended for hardware part, errors on BI server work can occur. It is linked with the fact that BI server intensively works with temporary files that can occupy the whole memory allocated to Tmpfs. In this case it is required to study whether it is possible to not use Tmpfs, in order that temporary files were located on hard disk, or to increase RAM memory size and memory allocated to Tmpfs.

Access to port that will be used for working. On installing BI server and web application it is necessary to open access to the port to send and receive queries. By default, Apache HTTP Server and Internet Information Services use port 80 (due to TCP/IP protocol).

NOTE. Refer to database documentation to learn additional requirements for DBMS back end installation.

Requirements for Settings for Working with Foresight Analytics Platform.

Working with Foresight Analytics Platform requires:

The Users group permissions

Open access to ports, with which a DBMS works
Started DBMS services
Start Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 or later
On order Oracle client and Foresight Analytics Platform work correctly, it is necessary that in the Windows local security policy the user (group) are included into the Create Global Objects policy.

NOTE. Refer to database documentation to get precise numbers of ports and required services.

Working with Foresight Analytics Platform as part of DHTML application requires:

The Users group permissions
Full permissions to folder with installed Foresight Analytics Platform.
Permissions to create virtual directories
Start Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 or later
Start Internet Information Services. On installing the BI server and the web application the installer creates necessary application pools and virtual directories

Access to the port that is used for work of the web server (by default, 80 port for Internet Information Services and Apache HTTP Server).

Interaction of Foresight Analytics Platform and license server requires:

Administrator permissions to start or stop and set up the license server
Open access to ports 5093 (for client-server communication) and 5099 (for server-server communication) to work on the UDP protocol.

Ports and Protocols

See below the list of ports and protocols that are used by various components of analytics platform to communicate with other information resources of the system being created.

System component	Default port	Protocol	Comments
Desktop application. Communication with DBMS to get access to repositories	Oracle - 1521 Microsoft SQL Server - 1433 Teradata - 1025 PostgreSQL/Postgres Pro/Postgres Pro Enterprise - 5432	TCP	Port can be modified, if DBMS supports working via various ports. Current port used for work can be received from DBMS administrator. Microsoft Office Add-Ins communicate with DBMS in the same way as desktop application.
BI server/security server	Internet Information Services - 80 Apache - 80	HTTP, HTTPS
BI search service	8080	HTTP	Port number depends on settings of Apache Tomcat where Apache Solr is deployed.
Web Application Back End	Internet Information Services: HTTP - 80 HTTPS - 443 Apache: HTTP - 80 HTTPS - 443	HTTP, HTTPS
State Server	Redis - 6379 Memcached - 11211	TCP
Mobile application server based on Internet Information Services	HTTP - 80 HTTPS - 443	HTTP, HTTPS
License Server	5093, 5099	UDP

To communicate with SAP or Microsoft Analysis Services data sources, ports that are set in settings of corresponding software are used. A more detailed information can be find in software guides.

Software product	Comments
SAP software product family	The list of ports is available in help via URL https://help.sap.com/viewer/ports.
Microsoft Analysis Services	2383 on setting the default instance. 2382 on setting named instance. For details about port settings, see the online documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/instances/configure-the-windows-firewall-to-allow-analysis-services-access?view=sql-server-2017.