System Requirements
For deploying the SW360, there are the following hardware requirements below. Please note that the main memory consumer is the tomcat application container. Accordingly, this requires different settings (see $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/setenv.sh).
Please note that you can review the current memory situation of the application in the liferay administration section as well (see Configuration-> Server Administration).
Hardware and Infrastructure
CD-based test instances
When there is a continuous deployment and continuous delivery directly deployed to machine the following machine is recommended:
- 1 core
- 4GB RAM
- 40GB normal file system
- 10Mbit Ethernet link
In this case, the sw360 solution runs fairly well for clicking around and creation of a few data sets. Note that Tomcat should have 2GB.
Staging instances
Testing and working with normal data sets for staging and pre-productive testing. Pre productive does not need to have the same execution speed of the machine, however, requires enough RAM and file system to run a clone on the data set.
- 2 cores
- 8GB RAM
- 500GB normal file system
- 100Mbit Ethernet link
The tomcat should be adjusted to 4GB RAM
Productive instances
Productive with for example: 10K releases, 2k users which deploys the entire solution onto a single larger machine. It does not apply to a docker based setup.
- 4 cores
- 16GB RAM
- 500GB SSD based file system
- 1GBit link Ethernet link
Tomcat should be adjusted to 10-12GB RAM. Note: normally, you could also run Tomcat with significantly lees RAM, if you put common dependencies in a shared lib folder.
Network
The following table shall give an overview about the inbound ports
| Port | Service | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 443 | https | Accessing the application |
| 22 | ssh | Administering the application |
| 80 | http | if you would like to access the solution over http |
| 5984/5985 | http/https | if access to the couchdb (admin) interface is required |
Overview about the additional outbound ports:
| Port | Service | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 3269 | sldap | If you do authentication using secure LDAP |
| 443 | sldap | If you do consume services over https (e.g. vulnerabilty pulling) |
| 53 | dns | … |
| 22 | ssh | the old way of calling a fossology server |
Outbound ports for http / https may be required for downloading system updates. Ports for ssh may not be required outbound.
Software:
As for the software, the sw360 can be run on many platforms, even on Windows seven. We have the following reference platform for development:
until 5:
- OpenJDK 8
- Unbunu 16.04 LTS
after 5:
- openjdk 8
- ubuntu 18.04 LTS
after 11:
- openjdk 11
- ubuntu 18.04 LTS
More information about requirements can be found here: https://github.com/sw360/sw360vagrant/wiki