System Requirements

Overview

The IQ Server is typically deployed on dedicated hardware. More specific hardware requirements are ultimately a function of the deployment architecture, the primary usage patterns, and the scale of deployment. With these influencing factors in mind, what follows here should be understood as guidelines. Your actual requirements may be different.

Development, test, or evaluation deployments can be scaled smaller than these recommendations and will continue to function, though performance degradation may be observed.

Installation Requirements

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CPU and RAM

For initial deployments, we recommend a processor with at least 8 CPU cores and 8GB of RAM. A minimum of 6GB of process space should be available to the IQ Server. Additional RAM can improve the performance due to decreased disk caching.

Example: Dual Intel Xeon E5620 with 2.4Ghz, 12M Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT.

Users with more than 100 applications should be prepared to increase OS resources to 16 CPU cores and 16 GB of RAM.

If your application count is exponentially larger, reach out to Support and your Customer Service rep to pinpoint your system resources requirements.

Disk

Storage requirements range with the number of applications projected to use the IQ Server. 500 GB to 1 TB of free disk space should provide more than adequate resources.

Monitoring disk-space usage will help you gauge the storage needs in your actual deployment and react to growing demands in time.

The IQ Server is an I/O intensive application and disk speed will affect the performance of the IQ Server considerably. We recommend using local drives or SAN usage. Usage of network mapped storage via NFS or similar e.g. AWS EFS, GlusterFS is not supported. It is important to consider the I/O load when running IQ Server in a virtual machine, especially when other virtual machines on the same host are running other I/O intensive applications e.g. the Nexus Repository Manager.

Operating System

Generally, any machine that can run a supported Sun/Oracle Java version should work. Refer to the Oracle documentation for specifics: Oracle JDK 8 and JRE 8 Certified System Configurations. The most widely used operating system for the IQ Server is Linux and therefore customers should consider it the best-tested platform.

User Account

It is recommended that an unprivileged service account be created if running the IQ Server as a daemon.

Ports

The IQ Server requires the following network access.

Inbound ( configurable ):

  • 8070 TCP: Main HTTP access port used by all IQ Server clients. The default connector is HTTP, binding to all interfaces on port 8070.
  • 8071 TCP: HTTP access for monitoring tools for monitoring and operational functions. The default connector is HTTP, binding to all interfaces on port 8071.

Outbound:

  • 443 TCP to https://clm.sonatype.com : Used by the IQ Server to securely access Sonatype Data Services. This hostname and port are not configurable.

    Sonatype Data Services must be reachable by IQ Server on the following URL: https://clm.sonatype.com/ .

Java

To run the IQ Server or IQ CLI, use only Java 8 for versions before release 89. Starting with release 89, Java 11 is also supported.

OpenJDK is officially supported since December 2018, IQ Server release 55. Prior to IQ Server release 63, the IQ Server used to check if the used JVM is supported. This check does not work for certain OpenJDK versions/flavors. You can disable this check by adding -Dclm.disableJreCheck=true to the command used to start the IQ Server.

Larger Java heap sizes will increase performance and stability. For initial deployments, set the maximum heap size to half of the capacity of your OS RAM with -xmx in your Java startup arguments.

Browser Requirements

Our general policy is to support the most recent modern browser version for your supported OS at the time of the IQ release date.

BrowserVersion
Edge"Release"
Firefox
  • ESR (extended support release)
  • “Stable”
Chrome

"Stable"

Safari (on OSX)
  • 5.1.9 corresponding to OS X 10.6
  • 6.0.4 corresponding to OS X 10.7 and 10.8
  • 7.1 corresponding to OS 10.9

JavaScript must be enabled for the chosen browser.

REST API Requirements

The IQ Server REST APIs are versioned. As a best practice, we recommend using the latest version of the IQ Server in addition to the latest version of the REST APIs. This ensures your system will take advantage of the latest features and improvements.

However, we also realize that users of previous versions need to maintain this compatibility even when there is an update. For this reason, we do provide support for previous versions based on the criteria below.

Supported API Versions:

  • Sonatype CLM 1.12 and earlier - Only Supports REST API v1
  • Sonatype CLM 1.13 and later - Supports both REST API v1 and v2
  • IQ Server 1.17 to 1.22 - Recommend usage of v2 REST API only.
  • IQ Server 1.23 and later - Only Supports REST API v2.

Identifying the version of the API is simple. Below we have provided an example using the REST API for retrieval of an organization ID:

http://localhost:8070/api/v2/organizations

As you can see, the  v2  located just after  api  indicates the version of the API. If you find that the API version you are using is not documented, and would like information on upgrading to the latest version you can contact our support team for assistance.