MPX System Requirements

Important: Prior to installing, please read the appropriate MPX Administrator's Guide and the StarTeam Installation Guide on the Product Documentation page of the Micro Focus web site at http://supportline.microfocus.com/productdoc.aspx. Proper planning is required in order to achieve best results from MPX.

The StarTeam Server must be installed prior to installing the Message Broker and MPX Cache Agent. MPX transmitters have the same system requirements as the StarTeam Server because they are part of that system. The MPX Message Broker is required - it can be the ActiveMQ MPX Message Broker or the StarTeamMPX Message Broker.The MPX Message Broker is a publish/subscribe messaging engine that broadcasts messages to subscriber components on a topic basis. It is a stand-alone process that can run on a separate computer to offload network processing overhead in high-volume environments. For details, see the StarTeam Server System Requirements in this document. You can also set up MPX Cache Agents in tiers at a variety of locations so that file contents and objects, transmitted by the file transmitter, can be a local network near any StarTeam user.MPX Cache Agents work with the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client to check out files and fetch objects faster.

Message Brokers and MPX Cache Agent

Note: For the MPX Cache Agent, these requirements should be sufficient for teams that have 50 to 100 members.
Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (64-bit)
  • SUSE Linux 11.3 and 11.4 (64-bit)
Note: You cannot install a 64-bit Windows StarTeam component on a 32-bit Windows system. The installer will return an error.
Processor/Hardware
  • Disk appropriate for size of cache; fast disk preferable but not mandatory
  • 100 Megabit NIC or better
  • 1 CPU P4 1Ghz or better
RAM

256 MB memory or better

Note: A MPX Cache Agent supports memory caching, which is important if object caching is enabled. Therefore, additional memory should be available to support the desired amount of memory caching. The default memory cache size is 100MB.
Hard disk space
12 MB to install the application plus sufficient disk space for the desired size of each MPX Cache Agent's cache
Display

SVGA, high color mode, 1024x768 or greater

Recommended resolution: 1280x1024 or more

Other
Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing the MPX Administrator's Guide

Hardware Recommendations

The following are the recommended system configurations according to the number of peak users:

Less than 100
64-bit, dual-core systems with 4GB of memory
100-200
64-bit, quad-core systems with 4-8GB of memory
More than 200
64-bit, quad-core systems with 8-16GB of memory

For the Message Broker, the number of peak users is typically lower than the number of peak users connected to the StarTeam Server since multiple Message Brokers are used in medium-to-large deployments. The number of peak users connected to a MPX Cache Agent is significantly lower because MPX Cache Agents are only used in short bursts. As a result, less hardware resources are typically required to support the Message Broker and MPX Cache Agent compared to the StarTeam Server. Moreover, for a given geographic location, the Message Broker and MPX Cache Agent are typically deployed on the same machine.

Parent topic: MPX for Microsoft Windows Installation