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OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer
3. (In OpenEdge Management only) Determine how monitoring might affect system
performance.
The more resources you monitor, the more system resources OpenEdge
Management uses. If you plan to monitor a large number of database servers and
network services in your configuration, you might want to consider configuring
additional OpenEdge Management instances, both locally and remotely.
4. Determine where to install OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer.
Based on the decisions you made in Steps 1 through 4, you can install OpenEdge
Management or OpenEdge Explorer either locally or on a separate or standalone
machine.
See OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer: Configuration for more
information.
System requirements
Most of the system requirements for OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer
are the same as those for OpenEdge.
Product support
To use all of OpenEdge Explorer’s features, you must have a database or
server/broker installation.
To use all of OpenEdge Management’s features, you must install products that support
the following functionality:
• The AdminServer
• A Workgroup or Enterprise database, to allow trending of OpenEdge Management
data
• A client networking license, to allow OpenEdge Management to run standard jobs
and reports
Browser support
A Web browser is required to run the OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer
graphical user interface known as the management console. Although you might find
other browsers that you can use with OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer,
the following browsers are supported in Windows platforms:
• Firefox
• Firefox Opera
• Internet Explorer
On UNIX platforms, the following browsers are supported:
• Mozilla
• Firefox
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