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This document provides information on ALM Octane system requirements, supported operating systems, technologies, and integrations.
In this topic:
· Hardware
· Software
· Installation, setup, and synchronization
Hardware
ALM Octane has the following hardware requirements:
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Screen resolutions Resolutions between the recommended and minimum values are also supported. |
Recommended |
1920 x 1080 |
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Minimum supported |
1280 x 720 |
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Production environments Contact customer support for the most up-to-date benchmark documentation. |
Application server Recommended: 2 or more ALM Octane server machines Minimum: 1 ALM Octane server machine |
CPU: 4 RAM: 8 GB Heap: Min 4 GB Disk space: At least 500 GB (network storage recommended)
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Database server 1 database server machine |
CPU: 16 RAM: 128 GB |
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Elasticsearch server Recommended: 3 Elasticsearch server cluster machines Minimum: 1 Elasticsearch server machine |
CPU: 4 and higher RAM: 16 GB |
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Load balancern 1 load balancing component (load balancer or reverse proxy) to enable clustering |
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Pre-production or test environments (Recommended values) Contact customer support for the most up-to-date be benchmark documentation. |
Application server 1 ALM Octane server machine |
CPU: 4 RAM: 8 GB Heap: Max 4 GB Disk space: 200 GB |
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Database server 1 database server machine |
Can be an existing database server. CPU: 8 RAM: 16 GB |
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Elasticsearch server 1 Elasticsearch server machine |
CPU: 4 and higher RAM: 8 GB |
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Virtual machines |
VMware or any virtual machine is supported, provided it has dedicated resources. |
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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:
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Server operating system |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) |
7.9, 8.x, 9.x Recommended: 9.3 |
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Suse |
12 with SP1-SP5, 15 with SP1-SP5 Recommended: 15 SP5 |
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Open Suse |
15.5 |
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Windows |
2016, 2019, 2022 Standard and Datacenter editions (Not Hyper-V/Essentials) |
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Browser |
Chrome |
Chrome: The two latest versions Chrome Enterprise |
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Edge |
Latest version (Chromium-based only) |
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Firefox |
Firefox: The two latest versions ESR: latest |
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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. |
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Database and Elasticsearch
ALM Octane supports the following Database and Elasticsearch versions:
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Supported |
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Database |
Oracle |
18c, 19c, 21c Recommended: 19c Standard or Enterprise edition, with character set AL32UTF8 |
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MS SQL Server |
2016, 2017, 2019 Standard or Enterprise edition, case-insensitive collations only. |
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Elasticsearch |
N/A |
Supported: 8.6 and above Recommended: 8.11 |
Installation, setup, and synchronization
ALM Octane supports the following options:
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Supported |
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Cloud environments |
· Amazon Web Services (AWS) (including RDS Database) · Microsoft Azure (including Azure SQL Database) · Any cloud environment which supports the Hardware, Software and Database definitions listed above. |
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Docker |
Take latest Docker image for 24.1: |
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LDAP Server |
Active Directory, or any LDAP provider supporting the LDAP3 protocol |
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Micro Focus Connect (Recommended) |
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ALM/Quality Center - limited license sharing |
17.x, 16.01,16.0, 15.5.x Recommended: 17.x 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:
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CI Server Version |
Plugin Version |
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Jenkins |
2.138.4 and later Latest verified: 2.414.1 |
6.1 and later Latest verified: 23.4.0 |
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TeamCity |
2019.1.x and later Latest verified: 2023.05.4 |
1.3.7 and later Latest verified: 1.4.8 |
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Bamboo |
6.3.1 and later Latest verified: 8.2.8 |
1.10.2 and later Latest verified: 2.0.0 |
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Azure DevOps Server and Azure DevOps Services |
2020, 2022 |
1.0.0.4 |
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GoCD |
23.3.0 and later |
1.0.7 and later Latest verified: 1.0.10 |
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PulseUno |
21.1 and later |
No Plugin Required – Functionality is core part of PulseUno |
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GitLab |
GitLab Enterprise Edition 12.6.3 and later Latest verified: 16.7 GitLab SaaS Latest on cloud |
1.1.126 and later Latest verified: CE 23.4.0
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GitHub |
GitHub Enterprise Server version 3.9.4 and GitHub Free, Pro, &Team |
23.3.0 |
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:
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Automated testing |
Various testing tools are supported. |
For details on supported tools and versions, see Supported Integrations on the Application Automation Tools site. |
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Performance testing |
LoadRunner Enterprise |
2023 R1 |
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Project Portfolio Management |
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) |
24.1 |
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Manual testing |
Sprinter |
2023.0.0.247 |
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Micro Focus QoT (Quality of Things) |
24.1.8.2 Windows and IOS |
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IDE plugins
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IntelliJ IDEA Prerequisite: JavaFX installed |
2017.1 and later On the following operating systems: · Windows · MacOS · Linux Recommended: CE-24.1 |
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Eclipse |
2018-09 and later On the following operating systems: · Windows · MacOS Recommended: 24.1.0 |
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Microsoft Visual Studio |
2017, 2019 and 2022 All editions: Community, Professional, and Enterprise Recommended: 2022 |
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Microsoft Visual studio Code |
1.63.2 and later |
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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. |
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Code coverage reports |
SonarQube |
7.2 and later Latest verified: 9.9 LTP |
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Security integrations |
SonarQube |
7.2 and later Latest verified: 9.9 LTP |
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Fortify SSC |
21.1.36 and later Latest verified: 23.2.0 |
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FOD (Fortify On Demand) |
Latest on cloud |
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ALM Octane - Test Management for Jira (Jira plug-in) |
Jira Cloud |
Latest on cloud With Jira Cloud Plugin CE-24.1
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Jira Server and/or Data Center |
Prerequisites: · Jira Server 8.2 or higher Recommended: 9.12.2 · JDK Supported: 11 With Jira Plugin CE-24.1
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Microsoft Teams |
N/A |
1.6 |
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Behavior Driven
Development (BDD) |
cucumber-jvm |
2.0.0 - 7.0.0, 7.11.1 |
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cucumber-js |
4.2.1, 5.1.0, 6.0.5, 7.3.0 ,9.0.0 |
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php-behat |
3.8.1 ,3.13 |
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python-radish |
0.13.2, 0.13.4, 0.15 |
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python-behave |
1.2.5, 1.2.6 |
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cucumber-ruby |
4.0.0, 5.0.0, 6.0.0, 7.0.0, 8.0.0 |
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cucumber-jvm (Legacy) |
4.2-4.8.1 and 1.2 |
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JBehave (Legacy) |
4.7 (Gherkin syntax only) |
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