# System Requirements

This section describes the software and hardware requirements to run IDOL.

## Basic Requirements

- To install IDOL services on Microsoft Windows operating systems, you must run the IDOL Server installer as a user with administrative privileges.

  NOTE: You do not require special privileges to run the IDOL Server installer on Linux or Solaris operating systems, or to run IDOL Server on any platform.

- You cannot run IDOL with restricted file system permissions (for example: disk quotas, file handle limits or memory limits).

- Your file system must permit file locking.

- Your network must support TCP/IP.

- If you run anti-virus software, back up software, or any other software that scans the file system on the machine that hosts IDOL server, ensure it does not monitor the IDOL Server directories, which can have a serious impact on IDOL Server performance. Micro Focus recommends that you use the component back up actions to back up your IDOL data.

  In addition some advanced anti-virus software can scan the network and might block some IDOL traffic, which can cause errors. Where possible, exempt the IDOL processes from this kind of network traffic analysis.

## Supported Platforms

IDOL runs on a variety of Windows and UNIX platforms. For details of supported platforms, refer to the IDOL 12.10 Release Notes.

## Recommended Minimum Hardware Specifications

Micro Focus recommends the following minimum hardware specifications for IDOL Server.

- a dedicated SCSI disk

- 4 GB RAM

- 100 GB Disk

- a minimum of 2 dedicated CPU - Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron or above

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