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<strong>Action</strong> <strong>Request</strong> <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong><br />

Compatibility and Support<br />

August 2010


2<br />

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Have the following information available so that Customer Support can begin working on your issue immediately:<br />

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o Product version (release number)<br />

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Operating system and environment information<br />

o Machine type<br />

o Operating system type, version, and service pack<br />

o <strong>System</strong> hardware configuration<br />

o Serial numbers<br />

o Related software (database, application, and communication) including type, version, and service pack or<br />

maintenance level<br />

Sequence of events leading to the problem<br />

Commands and options that you used<br />

Messages received (and the time and date that you received them)<br />

o Product error messages<br />

o Messages from the operating system, such as file system full<br />

o Messages from related software


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Contents<br />

<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix<br />

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5<br />

Vendor Backwards Compatibility and AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> ...................................................................... 6<br />

AR SYSTEM SERVER SUPPORTED HARDWARE PLATFORMS AND OPERATING SYSTEMS ............................. 7<br />

AR SYSTEM SERVER SUPPORTED DATABASES .............................................................................................................. 7<br />

Known Incompatibilities for AR <strong>System</strong> Server ......................................................................................... 8<br />

JAVA SUPPORT ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8<br />

Known Incompatibilities for Java ...................................................................................................................... 8<br />

AR SYSTEM MID-TIER SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS ............................................................................................. 9<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Mid-Tier Supported Configurations .................................................... 9<br />

Potential Incompatibilities for AR <strong>System</strong> Mid-Tier ................................................................................. 9<br />

AR SYSTEM CLIENT SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS ............................................................................................... 10<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Client Supported Configurations ....................................................... 10<br />

BROWSER SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS .................................................................................................................. 10<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Browser Supported Configurations ................................................. 10<br />

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................ 11<br />

Support Definitions for Virtual Environments ............................................................................................ 11<br />

Partially supported virtual environments ..................................................................................................... 11<br />

Fully supported virtual environments ............................................................................................................ 11<br />

OTHER PRODUCT COMPATIBILITY SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS .................................................................. 12<br />

Known Issues for Other Product Compatibility Supported Configurations ................................ 12<br />

Known Incompatibilities for Other Product Compatibility Supported Configurations ......... 12<br />

SCREEN READER SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS ..................................................................................................... 12<br />

LANGUAGE OFFERINGS ...................................................................................................................................................... 13<br />

REMEDY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTS .................................................................................................................... 13<br />

Known Issues for <strong>Remedy</strong> Applications and Products ......................................................................... 15<br />

Known Incompatibilities for <strong>Remedy</strong> Applications and Products ................................................... 15<br />

COMPARISON OF SUPPORT BETWEEN AR SYSTEM VERSION 7.5.00 AND <strong>7.6.03</strong> ................................................ 16


Introduction<br />

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<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix<br />

The <strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix is divided into multiple areas of support. Each of these<br />

areas is further broken down into three sections:<br />

Supported Configurations Known Issues Potential Issues<br />

Supported Configurations are those where the configuration is expected to work properly based on design, testing<br />

or general understanding of the interaction between products. For supported configurations, <strong>BMC</strong> Customer<br />

Support will work with customers on an issue involving the configuration until either the issue is resolved or a<br />

defect / enhancement is logged.<br />

Configurations not listed may still operate properly with AR <strong>System</strong> and thus customers may choose to run AR<br />

<strong>System</strong> in a configuration not listed as supported. Such configurations would be considered as ―unconfirmed‖.<br />

<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> will accept issues reported in unconfirmed configurations but we reserve the right to request<br />

customer assistance in problem determination, including recreating the problem on a supported configuration.<br />

Reported defects either found to be unique to an unconfirmed configuration or not reproducible within a supported<br />

environment will be addressed at the discretion of <strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong>. Defects requiring time and resources beyond<br />

commercially reasonable effort may not be addressed. If a configuration is found to be incompatible with AR<br />

<strong>System</strong> or ITSM applications, support for that configuration will be specifically documented as not supported (or<br />

unsupported – c.f. Known Issues below).<br />

The Known Issues section documents any known additional requirements or incompatibilities between <strong>BMC</strong><br />

products and products from other vendors. This list represents only those situations that <strong>BMC</strong> has encountered or<br />

researched and may not represent an exhaustive list.<br />

The Potential Issues section documents issues of supportability or incompatibility between <strong>BMC</strong> products and<br />

products from other vendors that are for informational purposes only. Final word on these statements would need<br />

to be stated in documentation from the other vendor.<br />

In all tables, Italics indicate an addition since AR <strong>System</strong> 7.5.00.


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<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix<br />

Vendor Backwards Compatibility and AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong><br />

It is expected that a vendor will retain full backwards compatibility with existing major or minor versions of a<br />

product when releasing newer versions of their products. This includes major, minor and maintenance releases as<br />

well as service packs, patches, updates or other similar level of changes. Unless otherwise stipulated by written<br />

communication from <strong>BMC</strong> Software, <strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> supports the listed version of vendor products or<br />

higher with regard to supported server operating systems, desktop operating systems, databases, web or application<br />

servers, servlet engines or browsers. However, this support is limited by documented compatibility restrictions<br />

from the vendors themselves.<br />

For example, if Oracle database version 10g were listed, AR <strong>System</strong> would support Oracle database version<br />

10g, 11g and future higher versions of Oracle database.<br />

In the event that a vendor does not provide backwards compatibility, <strong>BMC</strong> reserves the right to rescind support for<br />

a specified version of a vendor’s product and document such incompatibilities once confirmed. <strong>BMC</strong> may, at<br />

<strong>BMC</strong>’s discretion, attempt to address a discovered incompatibility by modifying the current version of AR <strong>System</strong>.<br />

However, if major architectural changes in a vendor product require significant <strong>BMC</strong> development to achieve<br />

tolerance, support for the vendor product may be deferred to a later version of AR <strong>System</strong>.


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<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Server Supported Hardware platforms<br />

and Operating <strong>System</strong>s<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Email Engine, <strong>Remedy</strong> Approval Server, <strong>Remedy</strong> Distributed Server Option (DSO) and <strong>Remedy</strong><br />

Encryption share the same requirements as the Server.<br />

The following Operating <strong>System</strong>s and hardware platforms are supported. AR <strong>System</strong> supports the listed<br />

version of vendor products or higher.<br />

Platform Minimum Operating <strong>System</strong> version<br />

32 or 64 bit x86 PC Compatible<br />

Windows 2003 (32 or x64)<br />

[Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard]<br />

Sun SPARC Solaris 9<br />

IBM pSeries and Power5 or higher IBM AIX 5L 5.3<br />

PA-RISC HP-UX 11iv2<br />

HP Integrity / Itanium HP-UX 11iv2<br />

64 bit PC Compatible Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x64 only) [Server Editions]<br />

64 bit PC Compatible Novell SuSE Linux 9 (x64 only) [Enterprise Server]<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Server Supported Databases<br />

The following databases are supported on all operating systems and platforms supported by <strong>BMC</strong> as defined in the<br />

―AR <strong>System</strong> Server Supported Hardware platforms and Operating <strong>System</strong>s‖ section above. AR <strong>System</strong><br />

supports the listed version of vendor products or higher.<br />

Minimum Database Version<br />

Oracle 10g R2 [Standard, Std One, Enterprise + RAC]<br />

The following additional databases are supported.<br />

Minimum Database Version Minimum Operating <strong>System</strong> version<br />

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (32 or 64-bit)<br />

[Enterprise, Standard]<br />

Sybase ASE 12.5.3 Solaris 9<br />

Informix Dynamic Server 11.5 Solaris 9, HP-UX 11iv2<br />

IBM DB2 9.5 [Enterprise, Workgroup,<br />

Workgroup Unlimited]<br />

Windows 2003 (32 or x64)<br />

[Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard]<br />

Solaris 9, IBM AIX 5L 5.3, Windows 2003<br />

For information on support of virtual environments, refer to the (Statement of Direction) <strong>BMC</strong> Atrium CMDB and<br />

<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> IT Service Management Virtual Environment Support found in the Documentation section for AR<br />

<strong>System</strong> on http://www.bmc.com/support.


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The following database client versions are supported and required to operate properly with supported<br />

databases. Database clients must match these versions – lower or higher versions are not supported.<br />

Platform Database Client version<br />

32-bit Windows servers<br />

Oracle :<br />

IBM DB2 :<br />

32-bit Oracle 11g<br />

32-bit DB2 9.7<br />

64-bit Windows servers<br />

Oracle :<br />

IBM DB2 :<br />

64-bit Oracle 11g<br />

64-bit DB2 9.7<br />

Oracle : 64-bit Oracle 11g<br />

UNIX<br />

Sybase :<br />

IBM DB2 :<br />

64-bit Sybase 15<br />

64-bit DB2 9.7<br />

Informix : 64-bit IDS 11.5<br />

Linux Oracle : 64-bit Oracle 11g<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Server Supported Configurations<br />

1. The 32-bit Windows version of AR <strong>System</strong> is only supported on 32-bit Windows operating systems. For<br />

64-bit Windows operating systems, the 64-bit Windows version of AR <strong>System</strong> is required.<br />

2. In general, <strong>BMC</strong> recommends running on the latest Service Pack, Maintenance Level or other such update<br />

to listed operating systems.<br />

3. Trusted extensions for Solaris are supported. Please see Solaris 10 FAQs for more information<br />

4. AIX 5.3 must be at ML 6 – SP5 (5300-06-05-0806) or greater with xlC RTE (C Run Time Library) 9.00.4<br />

or later. AIX 6.1 must be at TL 2 – SP1 or greater<br />

5. Oracle 10g installed on a 64-bit Windows operating system requires Oracle patch 5059261 or later<br />

Known Incompatibilities for AR <strong>System</strong> Server<br />

1. A database is required for AR <strong>System</strong>. Flat files are not supported.<br />

2. Solaris running on x86 or x64 processors is not supported.<br />

3. Windows or Linux running on Itanium processors is not supported.<br />

Java Support<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> (Server, Mid-Tier, and Developer Studio) <strong>7.6.03</strong> supports the listed version or higher.<br />

Supported Vendors are:<br />

Operating <strong>System</strong> Vendor Minimum recommended version<br />

Windows, Solaris, Linux (Red Hat and SuSE) Sun Microsystems JDK 1.5.0_12<br />

HP-UX HP HP JDK 1.5 build 1.5.0.05<br />

AIX IBM JDK 1.5 SR2<br />

Note: Sun Microsystems refers to Java 1.5 as "5.0" and 1.6 as ―6.0‖. See Java SE Naming and Versions for more details.<br />

Known Incompatibilities for Java<br />

1. When running in a 64-bit JVM, the Email Engine cannot support the MAPI protocol.<br />

2. When running in a 64-bit JVM, OLE Automation feature will not be available in Developer Studio.


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AR <strong>System</strong> Mid-Tier Supported Configurations<br />

The following Web / Application Servers and Servlet Engines are supported all operating systems and platforms<br />

supported by <strong>BMC</strong> as defined in the ―AR <strong>System</strong> Server Supported Hardware platforms and Operating <strong>System</strong>s‖<br />

section above. AR <strong>System</strong> supports the listed version of vendor products or higher.<br />

Minimum Web / Application<br />

Server versions<br />

Apache 2.0.x<br />

Tomcat 5.5.28<br />

JBoss 4.0.2+<br />

Oracle BEA WebLogic 10.0<br />

IBM WebSphere 6.1<br />

Minimum Servlet Engine versions<br />

ServletExec 5.0<br />

Tomcat 5.5.28<br />

JBoss (Embedded) 4.0.2+<br />

Oracle BEA WebLogic Servlet Engine 10.0<br />

IBM WebSphere Servlet Engine 6.1<br />

The following additional Web / Application Servers are supported.<br />

Minimum Web / Application Server version Minimum Operating <strong>System</strong> version<br />

Microsoft IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 (32 and x64)<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Mid-Tier Supported Configurations<br />

1. Crystal or BO Enterprise (not included – see below for supported versions/editions) is required for webbased<br />

reporting using Crystal reports.<br />

2. The following minimum standards are required to use the Mid-Tier<br />

Servlet API Version 2.3+<br />

JSP API Version 1.2+<br />

SOAP Version 1.1 or 1.2<br />

HTML Version 4.0+<br />

Javascript Version 1.3+<br />

3. HTTP Version 1.1 required<br />

4. The JRockit Java Virtual Machine is supported when installed with the BEA WebLogic application server,<br />

but only for use with WebLogic.<br />

5. Running Flash Player 10.1.53.64 on Internet Explorer browsers is not supported. The use of this version of<br />

Flash Player on Internet Explorer browsers may result in improper rendering of consoles and forms. Please<br />

visit Adobe Flash Player’s support site for details.<br />

Potential Incompatibilities for AR <strong>System</strong> Mid-Tier<br />

1. The following combinations may work properly, but are classified by <strong>BMC</strong> as ―unconfirmed‖.<br />

a. ServletExec 5.0 may not be supported on Apache 2.2.<br />

2. New Atlanta has ceased support for ISAPI with IIS 6.0 or higher. Please refer to FAQ #364 on the New<br />

Atlanta support site for more information.<br />

3. For Safari users, use of RTF fields requires Safari 4.0.4 or higher.


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AR <strong>System</strong> Client Supported Configurations<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> supports the listed version of vendor products or higher.<br />

Minimum Operating <strong>System</strong> Version AR <strong>System</strong> Clients<br />

Windows XP (32 bit only) – includes support for Vista [Enterprise, Business, Ultimate]<br />

(32-bit only) & Windows 7 [Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate] (32-bit only)<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> User Tool<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Developer Studio<br />

Windows 2003 (32 or x64) AR <strong>System</strong> Developer Studio<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Client Supported Configurations<br />

1. AR <strong>System</strong> clients are compiled as a 32-bit executable. 64-bit execution depends on operating system<br />

compatibility requirements. Consult your operating system and database vendors for information about<br />

compatibility support for 32-bit clients on 64-bit operating systems.<br />

2. The <strong>Remedy</strong> User Tool installation includes optional Crystal Reports XI reader libraries.<br />

a. <strong>BMC</strong> does not guarantee backwards compatibility of Crystal based reports that are not compatible<br />

with Crystal Reports XI viewer. Please refer to http://www.crystaldecisions.com for information<br />

regarding backwards compatibility with previous Crystal releases.<br />

3. A browser is required to correctly view Flashboards, View Fields and Application List field in the Home<br />

Page<br />

Browser Supported Configurations<br />

The following browsers are supported on all operating systems and platforms supported by <strong>BMC</strong> as defined in the<br />

―AR <strong>System</strong> Server Supported Hardware platforms and Operating <strong>System</strong>s‖ and ―AR <strong>System</strong> Client Supported<br />

Configurations‖ sections above. AR <strong>System</strong> supports the listed version of vendor products or higher.<br />

Minimum Browser version<br />

Firefox 3.0<br />

The following additional browsers are supported.<br />

Minimum Browser version Minimum Operating <strong>System</strong> version<br />

Internet Explorer 7 (32 & 64-bit)<br />

Windows XP (32 bit only) – includes support for Vista [Enterprise, Business, Ultimate]<br />

(32 or x64) & Windows 7 [Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate] (32 or x64)<br />

Internet Explorer 6 Windows 2003 (32 or x64), XP (32 bit only)<br />

Safari 3.2.3 Macintosh OS X 10.5<br />

Known Issues for AR <strong>System</strong> Browser Supported Configurations<br />

1. For optimal browser colors in AR <strong>System</strong> forms, set the color depth in the client system to at least 24 bits.<br />

2. HTTP Version 1.1 required<br />

3. Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.72 or higher is required.


Virtual environment support<br />

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Support Definitions for Virtual Environments<br />

<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix<br />

Support is defined at two levels — full or partial. A fully supported virtual environment indicates that <strong>BMC</strong><br />

will accept problems reported in the virtual environment; recreate any reported problems within the virtual<br />

environment; and address the issue in the same manner as other reported issues on non-virtual environments.<br />

Partial support indicates that <strong>BMC</strong> will accept problems reported in the virtual environments specified below,<br />

but reserves the right to request customer assistance in problem determination, including recreating the problem<br />

in a non-virtual environment. Under partial support, reported defects either found to be unique to a virtual<br />

environment or not reproducible within a native non-virtual environment will be addressed at the discretion of<br />

<strong>BMC</strong>. Defects requiring time and resources beyond commercially reasonable effort may not be addressed.<br />

<strong>BMC</strong> will only provide partial or full support for those operating systems running within a virtual environment<br />

that are defined within <strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> compatibility matrices as supported on a non-virtual environment.<br />

Partially supported virtual environments<br />

Vendor Virtual platform<br />

VMWare<br />

GSX Server, Workstation, VMWare Server,<br />

Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMotion Enabled Environments<br />

Microsoft Hyper-V<br />

Fully supported virtual environments<br />

The following are fully supported virtual environments for the <strong>BMC</strong> Atrium CMDB or <strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> IT<br />

Service Management applications running on:<br />

Vendor Virtual platform<br />

VMWare<br />

ESX Server<br />

Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 Zones (Whole Root and Sparse)<br />

Hewlett Packard HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPar)<br />

IBM AIX Logical Partitions (LPAR)<br />

Known incompatibilities for virtual environments<br />

1. <strong>BMC</strong> recommends against running server components of <strong>BMC</strong> Atrium technologies or <strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong><br />

IT Service Management applications within VMware Workstation in a production environment.


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Other Product Compatibility Supported Configurations<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Component Products Comments<br />

AR Server SNMP Agent <strong>BMC</strong> Patrol, Patrol Express SNMP v2<br />

AR Server SNMP Agent <strong>BMC</strong> Patrol Enterprise Manager AR <strong>System</strong> API<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Email Engine (Windows) Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003 SP1, 2007 (64-bit) Email/MAPI, IMAP, POP3, SMTP,<br />

MBOX<br />

AR ODBC (Windows) Microsoft 2000, 2003 (Excel, Access)<br />

AR ODBC (Windows) Crystal Reports 2008 Design and run reports through the<br />

AR ODBC interface<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> User Tool Crystal Reports XI reader libraries<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Mid-Tier (Windows) BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 [Premium,<br />

Professional]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Mid-Tier (Windows) Crystal Reports Server 2008<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> User Tool Citrix Metaframe XP 1.2 (Unix) and 3.0, 4.0 & 4.5<br />

(Windows)<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> User Tool Microsoft Windows Terminal Server 2003<br />

Known Issues for Other Product Compatibility Supported Configurations<br />

1. Business Objects Enterprise 3.1 and Crystal Report Server 2008 are only supported on Windows.<br />

Known Incompatibilities for Other Product Compatibility Supported<br />

Configurations<br />

1. The SAP Business Objects Enterprise Professional server supplied with <strong>BMC</strong> Analytics for BSM 7.6.00<br />

or earlier cannot be used with AR <strong>System</strong>. The Premium edition of <strong>BMC</strong> Analytics is required.<br />

2. SAP strongly recommends that BusinessObjects XI 3.0 customers upgrade to BusinessObjects XI 3.1 in<br />

all environments. BusinessObjects XI 3.0 is therefore not supported. Please refer to SAP Note number<br />

1261170 for details.<br />

Screen Reader Supported Configurations<br />

The following screen reader is supported to make AR <strong>System</strong> accessible to people with disabilities:<br />

Product Version Browser<br />

Freedom Scientific JAWS® for Windows 7 Internet Explorer 6.0<br />

Freedom Scientific JAWS® for Windows 9, 10 Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0


Language Offerings<br />

Localization (L10N): AR <strong>System</strong> end user interfaces are localized into<br />

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English<br />

French<br />

German<br />

Brazilian Portuguese<br />

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Italian<br />

Spanish<br />

Japanese<br />

Simplified Chinese<br />

Internationalization (I18N): AR <strong>System</strong> supports the following character encodings:<br />

MS 1252/ISO-8859-1 and -15<br />

MS 1250/ISO-8859-2<br />

MS 1257/ISO-8859-13<br />

MS 1251/ISO-8859-5<br />

MS 932/EUC-JP<br />

Russian<br />

Korean<br />

BIG5<br />

MS 936/GB2312<br />

MS 949/KSC-5601-1987<br />

MS 874/TIS-620 (Win only)<br />

Unicode UTF-8/UTF-16 (Java)<br />

This represents support for the following language sets:<br />

Latin-1: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese,<br />

Spanish and Swedish<br />

Latin-2: English, Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian<br />

Latin-4: English, Estonian, Greenlandic, Lappish, Latvian, Lithuanian<br />

Japanese<br />

Traditional Chinese<br />

Simplified Chinese<br />

Korean<br />

Cyrillic: Russian<br />

Standard Thai (Windows Only)<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Applications and Products<br />

Client / Add-On / Application Supported on<br />

Supported on<br />

Supported on<br />

Server 7.1.00? Server 7.5.00? Server <strong>7.6.03</strong>?<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Administrator 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] No<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Developer Studio 7.5.00 Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Developer Studio <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.5.00 features] Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> User 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.1.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> User 7.5.00 Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> User <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.5.00 features] Yes<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Mid Tier 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.1.00 features]<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Mid Tier 7.5.00 Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Mid Tier <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.5.00 features] Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Email Engine 7.1.00 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Email Engine 7.5.00 No Yes No


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<strong>Remedy</strong> Email Engine <strong>7.6.03</strong> No No Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Approval Server 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.1.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Approval Server 7.5.00 No Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Approval Server <strong>7.6.03</strong> No No Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Assignment Engine 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.1.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Assignment Engine 7.5.00 No Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Assignment Engine <strong>7.6.03</strong> No No Yes<br />

Distributed Server Option 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.1.00 features]<br />

Distributed Server Option 7.5.00 Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

Distributed Server Option <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.5.00 features] Yes<br />

Flashboards 7.1.00 Yes No No<br />

Flashboards 7.5.00 No Yes No<br />

Flashboards <strong>7.6.03</strong> No No Yes<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Encryption 7.1.00 Yes Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.1.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Encryption 7.5.00 Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes Yes [7.5.00 features]<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Encryption <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes [7.5.00 features] Yes<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Migrator 7.1.00 Yes No No<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Migrator 7.5.00 Yes [7.1.00 features] Yes No<br />

AR <strong>System</strong> Migrator <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Developer Plus 6.0 / 6.3 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Full Text Search 7.1.00 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Full Text Search 7.5.00 No Yes No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Full Text Search <strong>7.6.03</strong> No No Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Link for Tivoli v6.3 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Link for Oracle / SQL Server 5.1.00 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Link for Oracle / SQL Server 7.0.00 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Link for MS Project 7.0 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Link for MS Project 7.1 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> <strong>Help</strong> <strong>Desk</strong> 5.6 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> <strong>Help</strong> <strong>Desk</strong> 6.0 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Service <strong>Desk</strong> 7.0.x Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Service <strong>Desk</strong> 7.5.x No Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Service <strong>Desk</strong> 7.6 No Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Asset Management 5.6 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Asset Management 6.0 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Asset Management 7.0.x Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Asset Management 7.5.x No Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Asset Management 7.6 No Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Change Management 5.6 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Change Management 6.0 Yes No No<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Change Management 7.0.x Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Change Management 7.5.x No Yes Yes


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<strong>Remedy</strong> Change Management 7.6 No Yes Yes<br />

Service Level Agreements 5.6 Yes No No<br />

Service Level Agreements 6.0 Yes No No<br />

Service Level Management 7.0.x Yes Yes Yes<br />

Service Level Management 7.1.00 Yes Yes Yes<br />

Service Level Management 7.5 No Yes Yes<br />

Service Level Management 7.6 No Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Customer Support 5.6 Yes Yes Yes<br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> Quality Management 5.6 Yes Yes Yes<br />

Service <strong>Request</strong> Management 2.1.0 Yes Yes Yes<br />

Service <strong>Request</strong> Management 2.2.0 Yes Yes Yes<br />

Service <strong>Request</strong> Management 7.5.00 No Yes Yes<br />

Service <strong>Request</strong> Management 7.6 No Yes Yes<br />

Atrium CMDB 2.0.1 Yes Yes (Windows only) No<br />

Atrium CMDB 2.1 Yes Yes (Windows only) Yes (Win 32 bit Only)<br />

Atrium Core 7.5.00 No Yes Yes (Win 32 bit and<br />

Unix and Linux)<br />

Atrium Core 7.6.00 No Yes Yes (Win 32 bit and<br />

Unix and Linux)<br />

Atrium Core <strong>7.6.03</strong> No No Yes<br />

Atrium Integration Engine 7.1.00 Yes Yes Yes<br />

Atrium Integration Engine 7.5.00 Yes Yes Yes<br />

Atrium Integration Engine <strong>7.6.03</strong> Yes Yes Yes<br />

Known Issues for <strong>Remedy</strong> Applications and Products<br />

1. It is strongly recommended that all users on a single AR <strong>System</strong> Server use the same <strong>Remedy</strong><br />

Administrator or Developer Studio version.<br />

2. AR <strong>System</strong> servers co-located on the same machine must be the same version.<br />

3. In AR <strong>System</strong> 7.5.00 and higher, unlimited flashboards no longer require an additional license add-on<br />

4. If running CMDB 2.1, Patch 003 is required for use with AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> (Windows only)<br />

5. If running SRM 2.2, Patch 003 is required for use with AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong>.<br />

Known Incompatibilities for <strong>Remedy</strong> Applications and Products<br />

1. Previous versions of Atrium Core, ITSM, SRM and SLM may not be compatible when Mid Tier is<br />

installed within a 64-bit JVM. Please refer to the Expected 64-bit interoperability with <strong>BMC</strong><br />

<strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> Mid-Tier <strong>7.6.03</strong> for more information.


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<strong>BMC</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> AR <strong>System</strong> <strong>7.6.03</strong> Compatibility Matrix<br />

Comparison of support between AR <strong>System</strong><br />

version 7.5.00 and <strong>7.6.03</strong><br />

Support removed is highlighted in red. Support added is highlighted in bold.<br />

7.5.00 7.6. 03<br />

Operating <strong>System</strong>s<br />

Windows 2003, or higher (32 or x64) Windows 2003, or higher (32 or x64)<br />

HP-UX 11iv2 or higher HP-UX 11iv2 or higher<br />

Solaris 9 or higher Solaris 9 or higher<br />

IBM AIX 5L 5.3 or higher IBM AIX 5L 5.3 or higher<br />

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or higher (x64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or higher (x64)<br />

Novell SuSE Linux 9 or higher (x64) Novell SuSE Linux 10 or higher (x64)<br />

Windows Vista, XP, Windows 7 (client only) Windows Vista, XP, Windows 7 (client only)<br />

Macintosh 10.4 or higher (browser only) Macintosh 10.4 or higher (browser only)<br />

Databases<br />

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or higher (32 or 64-bit) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or higher (32 or 64-bit)<br />

Oracle 10g or higher Oracle 10g or higher<br />

IBM DB2 9.1 or higher IBM DB2 9.5 or higher<br />

Sybase ASE 12.5.3 or higher Sybase ASE 12.5.3 or higher<br />

Informix Dynamic Server 10 or higher Informix Dynamic Server 11.5 or higher<br />

Web Servers<br />

Apache 2.0.x or higher Apache 2.0.x or higher<br />

Tomcat 5.5.25 or higher Tomcat 5.5.28 or higher<br />

JBoss 4.0.2+ or higher JBoss 4.0.2+ or higher<br />

Oracle BEA WebLogic 9.2 or higher Oracle BEA WebLogic 10.0 or higher<br />

Microsoft IIS 6.0 or higher Microsoft IIS 6.0 or higher<br />

IBM WebSphere 6.1 or higher IBM WebSphere 6.1 or higher<br />

Oracle AS 10gR3 or higher<br />

Servlet Engines<br />

ServletExec 5.0 or higher ServletExec 5.0 or higher<br />

Browsers<br />

Internet Explorer 6 or higher Internet Explorer 6 or higher<br />

Firefox 2.0 or higher Firefox 3.0 or higher<br />

Safari 3.0 or higher Safari 3.2.3 or higher<br />

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