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Ingeniux CMS 10.5–10.6 Prerequisites

Ingeniux CMS 10.5–10.6 requires the following hardware and software configurations.

CMS Hardware

  • 4x CPUs - 2.6 GHz or higher.
    • Additional CPUs will improve performance.
  • 8 GB RAM or more.
    • Additional 8 GB RAM will be required for each ~50,000–100,000 items.
  • SSD, SATA, or SCSI fast disk storage.
    • Use the fastest disk possible for optimal performance.
    • We recommend that storage space be at least two times the size of all content and assets with additional room for any anticipated growth over the next 12 months.
    • Maintain at least 20 GB of free disk space on the application drive.
  • Gigabit Ethernet.

CMS 10.6 Software

For organizations that plan to implement DITA, the DITA publishing pipeline requires at least 32 GB of RAM. Keep in mind the following factors:

  • If your organization plans to store large DITA collections in the CMS, you may require more than 32 GB of RAM.
  • When processing large DITA maps, the DITA-OT alone may use up to 8 GB of RAM. However, RAM utilization is typically released by Java VM. If you do not meet the RAM requirement, the server will remain out of memory until the process completes.
  • Dependency building during publish uses RAM, especially when content dependencies share extensive connections.
  • For published DITA content, the DSS will deserialize dependencies and cache them in RAM. This can take an additional 2 to 4 GB of RAM.

See the DITA Publishing Pipeline for details about CMS 10.6 DITA implementations. See Initial DITA Configuration for details about DITA publishing pipeline requirements.

DSS Hardware

  • 4x CPUs - 2.6 GHz or higher.
    • Additional CPUs will improve performance.
  • 4 GB RAM or more.
    • Additional RAM will be required for large sites.
  • SATA or SCSI fast disk storage.
    • Use the fastest disk possible for optimal performance.
    • Use a disk size large enough to store all content/assets and maintain at least 10 GB pf free disk space on the application drive.
  • Gigabit Ethernet.

CMS 10.1+ Software

  • Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, or 2019 (use 64-bit format for all Windows Server versions).
    • Support for Windows Server 2003 and 32-bit editions of Windows Server 2008 have ended. If you need assistance, contact Ingeniux Support.
    • Virtualization is supported.
    • Windows 7, 8.x, and 10 64-bit Pro or Enterprise supported for test/development/trial purposes.
  • Microsoft IIS, including default configurations of Roles /Feature, as well as the following additional settings:
    • Internet Information Services > Management Console.
    • Internet Information Services > Development > ASP.NET.
    • Internet Information Services > Security > Windows Authentication.
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.x.
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2.
    • If IIS was not installed before .NET Framework 4.7.x then after installation of IIS, ASP.NET must be registered via a Windows Administrator command line. Navigate to the 64 bit .NET Framework 4.0 folder (%WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319), and then execute the command "aspnet_regiis.exe -i".
  • Microsoft MSXML 6.0 SP2.
    • Installed by default in supported operating systems unless manually removed.
  • Microsoft Sync Framework Services—64-bit version.
    • Included & installed automatically during main CMS installation (IGXSetup.exe).
  • IIS 6.0 compatibility mode.
    • If local SMTP email server is selected instead of network relay/send.

Next Steps: Prepare Windows Server for the CMS installation. Choose the set of instructions that matches your Windows Server release: