The eG Installation Guide - eG Innovations

Installing and Configuring on Windows Environments
Installing and Configuring on Windows
Environments
This chapter describes the steps involved in installing and configuring eG Enterprise on Windows
2000/2003 operating systems. Installing and configuring the eG manager can be achieved in a single
stage in Windows environments. The various factors that need to be considered while installing the
eG manager as well as the components that make up the manager have been described in the first
chapter.
Note:
Administrator privileges are required to perform this installation.
Before proceeding with the installation process, please go to "Control Panel-> Display-
>Settings" and set the number of colors to 65536 at least. This is the optimal DISPLAY setting
in the computer to view the eG user interface well.
3.1 Installing and Configuring the Manager
3.1.1 Pre-requisites for Installation
For the eG manager to function, the system on which the manager is being installed should support:
a. JDK 1.5 (or its variants) / JDK 1.6.0_10 and above
b. Windows 2003 server (OR) Windows 2008 server (OR) Windows XP workstation (OR)
Windows 7
c. Only systems with a static IP address (i.e. no DHCP address) should be used for installing
the eG manager
d. A minimum of 1 GB disk space
e. A minimum of 2 GB of RAM for installing on 32-bit Windows hosts and a minimum of 4 GB
of RAM for installing on 64-bit hosts
f. Internet Explorer Version 8.0 and above (OR) Mozilla Firefox Version 2.0 and above (OR)
Chrome
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