IBM Lotus Quickr V8.0.0.2 (services for WebSphere Portal) hardware and software requirements on a Linux on x86 operating system.

This page describes the minimum product levels that need to be installed before opening a problem report with the IBM Lotus Quickr Support team. Because other products frequently ship fixes, updates, and new releases, testing every configuration is not possible. In general, you can install and run with updates to supported products if those updates are forward compatible.

The list below identifies the supported products that work with IBM Lotus Quickr on a Linux on x86 operating system.The supported product can run, but does not need to run, on the same machine or operating system where IBM Lotus Quickr runs. Check product-specific software requirements to determine whether software runs native or connected to IBM Lotus Quickr.

IBM Lotus Quickr on Linux on x86 supports:		Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Enterprise Server (ES), Advanced Server (AS), Workstation (WS) and Desktop for x86-32 V4.0 Update 4 (RHEL product site)(See Required detail1)
Linux on x86 hardware requirements		Minimum 4 GB free disk space for installation for IBM Lotus Quickr Under minimal load, Lotus Quickr can function with 2G of RAM. However, 4G is an optimal starting point for RAM in a production environment CD-ROM drive Processor: CPU speeds of late-model, mid-range to high-end servers are recommended. Pentium 1 GHz or equivalent at a minimum. Production environments should consider the Pentium 4 processor at 2.5 GHz or higher.
Application Servers		WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2.17 Network Deployment (WebSphere Application Server product site)
Web servers		Apache Server 2.0.49, 2.0.52, & 2.0.54 (Apache Server product site) (See Required detail10a) IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47.1 (IBM HTTP Server product site) (See Required detail10b) IBM HTTP Server 6.0, 6.0.1, & 6.0.2 (IBM HTTP Server product site) (See Required detail10b) Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 (Microsoft product site) (See Required detail10d) IBM Lotus Domino (as Web server 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 6.5.5 & 6.5.4 (Lotus Domino product site) (See Required detail10e) Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP3 (Sun product site) (See Required detail10f) Sun Java System Web Server 6.0 SP9 (Sun product site) (See Required detail10f)
Web browsers (See Required detail24) (required for administration/configuration, sample program execution and launch pad. There is no restriction nor certification of Web browsers on clients that connect the server to display content)		Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 SP2 for Windows XP (Microsoft product site) Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 for Windows XP (Microsoft product site) FireFox V2.0 (Firefox product site)
LDAP servers		IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0 (IBM Tivoli Directory Server product site) (See Required detail11) IBM Tivoli Directory Server 5.2 (IBM Tivoli Directory Server product site) (See Required detail12) IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 6.5.5, & 6.5.4 (Lotus Domino product site) (See Required detail13,) Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 (Novell eDirectory product site) Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 (Sun product site) Windows Active Directory 2000 or 2003 (Windows Active Directory 2000 product site) (Windows Active Directory 2003 product site) Windows Active Directory Applilcation Mode (ADAM) 2003
Supported Java Runtime Environments - Web Content Management component in Lotus Quickr (wikis, blogs, lists, authoring portlet, rich text editor, list viewer, and html viewer)		Java Runtime Environments 6.0_01, 5.0_11, 5.0_09, 5.0_06, 1.4.2_12, 1.4.2_10, 1.4.2_08, 1.41_07 (Sun product site) (See Required detail23)
Software for collaboration -Domino and Extended Products (optional)		IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 6.5.5, & 6.5.4 (IBM Lotus product site) (See Required detail15,) IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 (WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+) & 7.0 (IBM Lotus product site) IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing 6.5.1 (IBM Lotus product site) (See Required detail16,) IBM Lotus Team Workplace 6.5.1 (IBM Lotus product site) (See Required detail17,) Workplace Collaborative Learning 2.7
Software for license management		IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager (See Required detail22)
Feeds Support(See Required detail25)		Documents component: supported levels for publish: Atom: 1.0 RSS: not supported Documents component: supported levels for import: Atom: 0.3, 1.0 RSS: 0.90, 0.91 Netscape, 0.91 Userland, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 2.0 Feed reader component: supported levels for import: Atom: 0.3, 1.0 RSS: 0.91, 0.92, 2.0 Wiki and blog components: supported levels Atom: 1.0 RSS: not supported

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Required details: 1. Bit-Architecture Supported: Lotus Quickr and WebSphere Application Server = 32-bit mode only; Operating System = 32-bit only. Workstation and Desktop are only supported as Developer platforms. Productivity Components require X11 R6 libraries in addition to the following libraries: openmotif, openmotif21-libs, openmotif-devel, openmotif-libs. Set the system-wide maximum open files number to 10240 before running the Lotus Quickr installation program. This may be accomplished by root invoking ulimit -n 10240. Some systems may require a reboot before this value takes effect. Consult your operating system manual. When installing the WebSphere Application Server Deployment Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 4 Update 4, you may receive a warning that a supported operating system was not found; you can ignore this warning and continue with the installation. 10a. Includes CERT Advisory CA-2002-17. 10b. The fix PK13784 is also required. 10c. HTTP Server for i5/OS is provided natively on System i5 and is not bundled with or installed by Lotus Quickr. the license program number is 5722DG1. Issue the GO LICPGM to display all the installed licensed programs. 10d. Supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. 10e. To use Lotus Domino Version 7.0 with WebSphere Application Server, you must install the Web Server plug-in for Lotus Domino Server Version 6 which is a part of the Web Server plug-in for WebSphere Application Server 6.1 10f. Support for AIX was discontinued with 6.x editions. 11. Add APAR IO002714 6.0.0.1-TIV-ITDS-IF000a available at IBM Support. 12. For 5.2.0.3-TIV-ITDS-IF0001 or earlier, add APAR IO02697 (This will update Tivoli Directory Server to Fix Pack 3) available at IBM Support. For 5.2.0.3-TIV-ITDS-IF0007 or earlier, add APAR IO02697. For 5.2.0.3-TIV-ITDS-LA0011 or earlier, add APAR IO02697. SUSE SLES for S/390 8 is not supported. For detailed requirements information for the LDAP server, see Tivoli Directory Server Installation and Configuration Guide. 13. For 7.0.2 & 7.0.1: Apply SPR KLIN6LRTHJ to be able to return Groups and Users by direct lookup. For 6.5.5 & 6.5.4, Apply SPR LORN6FKK9Q to be able to return Groups and Users by direct lookup. 15. Common PIM support note: The Common Mail and Common Calendar portlets require Lotus Domino 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 6.5.5, 6.5.4. For support of all Common Calendar features, such as the group calendar and rich text attachments. Lotus Domino 7.0.2 is required. A Domino Interim Fix Pack may be required on any Lotus Domino messaging server that functions as a back end for teh Common PIM portlets. Contact IBM Support to determine whether such a Fix Pack is required and how to obtain it. 16. For release 6.5 or later only, Lotus Sametime is called IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing. 22. IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager Version 2.2 Fix Pack 1 is required to properly monitor the Lotus Quickr product offerings. 23. Known Limitation -- JRE 1.4.1_07 crashes Firefox 2.0 browser when creating an authoring template. 24. The Web browsers were tested by IBM on servers that support the following client operating systems or desktop products: WinXP SP2 Win Vista (32 bit only, toleration only; not full support) RedHat v4 25. The feeds were tested by IBM on servers that support the following feed applications: Internet Explorer 7 FireFox 2.0 Rssowl 1.2.3 Omea Reader 2.2 NewzCrawler 1.8.0 FeedReader 3.07

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