Support Matrix Micro Focus ALM Octane
Software Version 16.0.300
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Installation, setup, and synchronization
ALM Octane has the following hardware requirements:
Component |
Type |
Value |
Screen resolutions Resolutions between the recommended and minimum values
are also supported. |
Recommended |
1920 x 1080 |
Minimum supported |
1280 x 720 |
|
Production environments Contact customer support for the most up-to-date benchmark
documentation. |
Recommended: 2 ALM Octane server
machines, minimum Minimum: 1 ALM Octane server
machine |
CPU: 4 RAM: 8 GB Heap: Min 4 GB Disk space: At least 500 GB (network storage
recommended) |
1 database server machine |
CPU: 8 RAM: 16 GB |
|
Recommended: 3 Elasticsearch
server cluster machines Minimum: 1 Elasticsearch
server machine |
CPU: 4 and higher RAM: 8 GB |
|
1 load balancing component (load balancer or
reverse proxy) to enable cluster |
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Pre-production or test environments (Recommended values) Contact customer support for the most up-to-date be benchmark
documentation. |
1 ALM Octane server machine |
CPU: 4 RAM: 8 GB Heap: Max 4 GB Disk space: 200 GB |
1 database server machine |
Can be an existing database server CPU: 8 RAM: 16 GB |
|
1 Elasticsearch server machine |
CPU: 4 and higher RAM: 8 GB |
|
Virtual machines |
VMware or any virtual machine is supported,
provided it has dedicated resources |
Note: For performance purposes, we
recommend that the database and ALM Octane server both reside within the same
LAN.
Software
ALM Octane has the following software requirements:
Component |
Type |
Supported |
Server operating system |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) |
6.5 and later, 7.x, 8.x Recommended: 7.9 |
CentOS |
6.5 and later, 7.x Recommended: 7.9 |
|
Suse |
12 with SP1-SP5 Recommended: SP5 |
|
Open Suse |
15.2 |
|
Windows |
2016, 2019 Standard and Datacenter editions (Not Hyper-V/Essentials) |
|
Browser |
Chrome |
Chrome: The two latest versions Chrome Enterprise |
Edge |
Latest version (Chromium-based only) |
|
Firefox |
Firefox: The two latest versions ESR: latest |
|
Apple Safari |
The two latest versions |
|
JDK |
|
Open/Oracle JDK 11 on the ALM Octane server. Make sure the latest security updates are
installed on the ALM Octane server at all times. |
Database and Elasticsearch
ALM Octane supports the following Database and Elasticsearch versions:
Component |
Type |
Supported |
Database |
Oracle |
12cR2, 18c, 19c Recommended: 19c Standard or Enterprise edition, with character
set AL32UTF8 |
MS SQL Server |
2016, 2017, 2019 Standard or Enterprise edition, case-insensitive
collations only. |
|
Elasticsearch (on-premises) |
N/A |
7.9.1 ,7.16.2 Recommended: 7.16.2 |
Installation, setup, and synchronization
ALM Octane supports the following options:
Component |
Supported |
Cloud environments |
·
Amazon
Web Services (AWS) ·
Microsoft
Azure (including Azure SQL Database) ·
Any
cloud environment which supports the Hardware, Software and Database
definitions listed above. |
LDAP Server |
Active Directory, or any LDAP provider supporting
the LDAP3 protocol |
Micro Focus Connect (Recommended) |
|
ALM Octane Legacy Synchronizer |
Micro
Focus Connect is the designated synchronization solution
for ALM Octane going forward, for which additional functionality is likely to
be added. |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 and later, 7.x, 8.x Recommended: 7.8 |
|
CentOS 6.5 and later, 7.x Recommended: 7.x Last version for support |
|
ALM/Quality Center 16.0.1, 16.0, 15.50 and
15.01 (non-SSO mode), 14.02 patch 2 and later, 12.60 patch 1, 12.55, 12.53,
12.50, 15.5.1 P2 RC1 |
|
|
Jira Cloud Jira Server 7.2.8 and later Recommended: 8.20.x |
Jira Test Management (Jira plug-in) |
7.x, 8.x Recommended: 8.21.0 |
ALM/Quality Center - limited license sharing |
16.0.1, 15.50, 15.01, 12.60, 12.55, 12.53 patch
3, 12.21 patch 6 Earlier versions of 12.53 versions require
a hotfix. Note: You
can share up to 15% of your licenses from ALM or Quality
Center, or up to 150 licenses, the lower of the two. |
CI server integrations
ALM Octane supports the following CI server integrations:
Type |
CI Server Version |
Plugin Version |
Jenkins |
2.138.4 and later Latest verified: 2.263.1 |
6.1 and later Latest verified: 7.0.7 |
TeamCity |
2019.1.x and later Latest verified: 2020.2 |
1.3.7 and later Latest verified: 1.4 |
Bamboo |
6.3.1 and later Latest verified: 7.1 |
1.10.2 and later Latest verified: 1.12.6 |
Azure DevOps Server Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) |
2015 update 4, 2017, 2018 |
1.4 and later |
Azure DevOps Server Azure DevOps Services - Pipelines |
2019, 2020 |
Technical preview on Azure Marketplace |
GoCD |
20.8 and later |
1.0.7 and later Latest verified: 1.0.8 |
PulseUno |
21.1 and later |
No Plugin Required – Functionality is core part
of PulseUno |
GitLab |
GitLab Enterprise Edition 12.6.3 and later Latest verified: 13.4 |
1.1.63 and later Latest verified: 1.1.116 |
Integrations
Caution: When working with integrations, configure ALM Octane with a secured TLS (SSL) connection. For instructions, see ALM Octane Secure Deployment and Configuration Guidelines.
ALM Octane supports the following integrations:
Component |
Type |
Supported |
Automated testing |
Various
testing tools are supported. |
For
details on supported tools and versions, see Supported
Integrations on the Application Automation
Tools site. |
Performance testing |
LoadRunner
Enterprise |
12.63 |
Project Portfolio Management |
Project
and Portfolio Management (PPM) |
10.0 |
Manual testing |
Sprinter |
102021
R1 and later |
Micro
Focus QoT (Quality of Things) |
2.7 |
|
IDE plugins Prerequisite:
JavaFX installed |
IntelliJ IDEA |
2017.1
and later Recommended:
2021.3.1 On the
following operating systems:
|
Eclipse |
2018-09
and later Recommended:
2021-12 On
the following operating systems:
|
|
Microsoft
Visual Studio |
2017
and 2019 Recommended:
2019 All
editions: Community, Professional, and Enterprise |
|
OData |
N/A |
4.0 Any
tool that supports OData version 4.0 is likely to work well with ALM
Octane. ALM
Octane OData support has been tested with Power BI and Excel. For
OData version 4.0 support, download and install the Microsoft
Power Query for Excel add-in. |
Code coverage reports |
SonarQube |
7.2
and later |
Security
integrations |
SonarQube |
7.2
and later |
Fortify
SSC |
21.1.36
and later |
|
FOD (Fortify On Demand) |
20.1 |
|
Business Driven Development (BDD) |
Cucumber-jvm |
4.2-4.8.1
and 1.2 |
JBehave |
4.7 (Gherkin syntax
only) |
|
Microsoft
teams |
|
Latest |
Business Driven Development (BDD) Using bdd2octane |
Cucumber-jvm |
2.0.0 - 7.0.0 |
cucumber-js |
4.2.1, 5.1.0, 6.0.5,
7.3.0 |
|
php-behat |
3.8.1 |
|
python-radish |
0.13.2, 0.13.4 |
|
python-behave |
1.2.5, 1.2.6 |
|
cucumber-ruby |
4.0.0, 5.0.0, 6.0.0,
7.0.0 |