Installation Requirements for the IGEL UMS

This article lists the minimum requirements your hardware and software must meet to successfully install the components of the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) environment. For details on the IGEL UMS components, see Overview of the IGEL UMS.

System Requirements

You can run the IGEL UMS with Windows and Linux 64-bit systems (x86_64).

For the supported operating systems, see the "Supported Environment" section of the release notes. 

Standard UMS Installation Requirements

The documented installation requirements are purely for the UMS services. Please check the documentation of your host OS on details about the OS requirements.

Standard UMS means that you have a single UMS Server. You can host the UMS Server with the UMS Administrator, UMS Console, UMS Web App, and optionally, an Embedded Database hosted on the same machine. In this case, your hardware and software must meet the following minimum requirements:

• At least 10 GB of RAM

• At least 50 GB of free disk space

• 4 CPUs

Under Linux, an X11 system is required. It is required by the UMS Administrator application which can only be launched on the same machine as the UMS Server.

• Do not install the UMS Server on a domain controller system.

• Manually modifying the Java runtime environment on the UMS Server is not recommended.

• Running additional Apache Tomcat web servers together with the UMS Server is not recommended.

Installation Requirements of UMS Components 

The UMS components on the same host as the UMS Server and UMS Administrator have the following minimum requirements:

• UMS Web App

  • At least 2 GB of RAM

• UMS Console

  • At least 3 GB of RAM

  • At least 1 GB of free disk space

• Embedded Database

  • At least 2 GB of free disk space 

Standalone UMS Console Requirements

To install a standalone UMS Console on a separate host machine, your hardware and software must meet the following minimum requirements:

• At least 3 GB of RAM

• At least 1 GB of free disk space

• 2 CPUs

Database Systems (DBMS) Requirements

For details on the supported database systems, see the "Supported Environment" section of the release notes. Details of the requirements when installing and operating the database can be found in the documentation for the particular DBMS.

High Availability Requirements

The High Availability (HA) extension is designed to address the needs of large environments by implementing a network of several UMS Servers. For details on HA, see High Availability.

For installation requirements, see Installation Requirements.

The embedded database cannot be used for a High Availability network. You can use the embedded database only for a dedicated test installation with only a single server for the UMS Server and Load Balancer.

• High Availability with IGEL UMS Load Balancers: All UMS Servers and UMS Load Balancers must reside on the same VLAN.

• For High Availability (UMS HA) with IGEL UMS Load Balancers, network traffic must be allowed over UDP broadcast port 6155, and TCP traffic and UDP broadcast traffic over port 61616. For further port configuration, see IGEL UMS Communication Ports.

• The network configuration on Windows Servers must have the TCP/IPv6 option enabled for UMS 12.

• IGEL UMS HA installation with IGEL UMS Load Balancers is not supported in cloud environments like Azure / AWS as they do not allow broadcast traffic within their networks. The HA installation without IGEL UMS Load Balancers (as well as the Distributed UMS) is, however, supported in cloud environments as of UMS version 6.10.