AX Server requirements

For best AX Server performance, ensure your hardware and software meets the minimum requirements. Satisfactory production environment performance may require greater resources than the minimum specification.

Hardware

Processor, memory, and hard disk requirements for production systems depend on the following factors:

• the number of concurrent users and their usage profiles
• the size of the data payload
• the desired response time

Component	Minimum	Recommendation
Processor	2.5 gigahertz (GHz)	Quad-core processor (or two Dual-core processors) at 3.5 GHz or higher
Memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB or higher
Hard disk	100 GB This is the approximate amount of disk space required to download, extract, and install the prerequisites. (AX Server is 4.5 GB)	200 - 500 GB Data storage requirements vary by the number of types of audit tests performed and the volume of transactions. Smaller implementations typically require 50GB per year, while larger implementations may require up to 500GB per year. For use in production, high-speed disk access and throughput is recommended.
Other	TCP/IP connectivity. The ability to connect to Launchpad is required during online server activation.

Software

Software requirement	Minimum	Recommendation
Operating system
Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64 bit) Note Apply all critical Windows updates before installing AX Server. Running Windows Server using the Server Core (no GUI) option is not supported.	Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64 bit)	Windows Server 2016 or 2019
Web browser
Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer	Internet Explorer version 11	Latest version of Chrome
Optional integrated programming languages
Python programming language When installing Python, you must also configure it to run on your system. For more information, see Configuring Python for use with AX Server. Note You must install the requirements to use integrated Python functions in your analytics. If you do not intend to use this language, you do not need to install them.	Python 3.3.x (32-bit)	Python 3.5.x (32-bit) Version 3.5.x is fully tested and supported. You may use a different version such as 3.3.x or 3.6.x, however these versions do not offer the same guarantee of testing and support as 3.5.x.
R scripting language Depending on the R CRAN packages you intend to use, you may need to add the R i386 32-bit binary folder to your PATH environment variable. Note You must install the requirements to use integrated R functions in your analytics. If you do not intend to use this language, you do not need to install them.	R 3.3.1 (32 or 64-bit depending on Operating System)	R 3.2.3 or 3.2.5 (32 or 64-bit depending on Operating System)
To use the ACL Connector for Oracle, you must install: Oracle Instant Client 11g or 12c	You do not need to install Oracle Instant Client if you do not intend to use the ACL Connector for Oracle The bitness of Oracle Instant Client must match your operating system's bitness. If the 32-bit Instant Client is installed on a 64-bit machine, the connection fails If you install the Oracle Instant Client after AX Server, you must restart the ACL Analytics Exchange Service before you can use the connector If you are using Oracle as the database server for AX Server, you must also install Instant Client on the machine that hosts the database server, see Database server	N/A

Automatically installed prerequisites

The following prerequisites are automatically installed by the AX Server setup wizard if the required software is not detected:

• Amazon Corretto Java Runtime Environment 8 (JRE 8u212)
• Apache TomEE 7.0.5 (Tomcat version 8.5.32)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2

  Note

  If your computer already has .NET 4.6.0 or 4.6.1, the application uses the installed version of .NET and does not install version 4.6.2.

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable Package (x64 and x86)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package (x64)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable Package (x64)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package, Service Pack 1 (x64 and x86)
• Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 (32-bit)
• Open XML SDK 2.5 for Microsoft Office

Analytics data connectors

The ODBC drivers listed below are installed for use as Analytics data connectors:

• ACL Connector for Active Directory
• ACL Connector for Amazon Redshift
• ACL Connector for Cassandra
• ACL Connector for Concur
• ACL Connector for Couchbase
• ACL Connector for Drill
• ACL Connector for DynamoDB
• ACL Connector for Email
• ACL Connector for Exchange
• ACL Connector for Google BigQuery
• ACL Connector for HBase
• ACL Connector for Hive
• ACL Connector for Impala
• ACL Connector for Jira
• ACL Connector for JSON
• ACL Connector for LDAP
• ACL Connector for Marketo
• ACL Connector for MongoDB
• ACL Connector for MySQL
• ACL Connector for Open Exchange Rates
• ACL Connector for Oracle
• ACL Connector for Rsam
• ACL Connector for REST
• ACL Connector for Salesforce
• ACL Connector for SAP
• ACL Connector for ServiceNow
• ACL Connector for SharePoint
• ACL Connector for Spark
• ACL Connector for SQL Server
• ACL Connector for Teradata
• ACL Connector for Twitter

Prerequisites included in Windows server

The following prerequisites are included in a default Windows server installation. The versions listed are the minimum requirement and most OS installations include later versions:

• Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
• Microsoft Jet 4.0

Database server

AX Server supports two database platforms, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

If your organization is implementing both AX Server and AX Exception the supported configurations are:

• both application databases using Oracle
• configuring the AX Server to use PostgreSQL as the database and Microsoft SQL Server as the AX Exception database

Software requirement	Minimum	Recommendation
One of the following Oracle versions if Oracle is selected as the Analytics Exchange database platform: Oracle 11gR2 Oracle 12c Oracle 18c Oracle 19c (Contact Support before using version 19c. Some features and configurations may not be supported.) Note The server that Oracle is installed on must meet the hardware requirements specified by the database vendor. You must also install Oracle Instant Client for your database version if you intend to use AX Connector direct database access. Oracle databases running on Amazon RDS are supported. Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) is not supported.	Oracle 11gR2	Oracle 18c
PostgreSQL 9.6 if PostgreSQL is selected as the Analytics Exchange database platform. Note If PostgreSQL is installed on the same server as AX Server, meeting the AX Server hardware requirements is sufficient. If PostgreSQL is installed on a separate server a 64-bit dual CPU, 64-bit operating system, and 2 GB of memory are recommended for production use.	PostgreSQL 9.6	PostgreSQL 9.6