About Preinstallation Requirements

Review the following preinstallation requirements before you run the Plant Applications Web Client installer:

System Requirements

Ensure that your computer meets the system requirements as described in the following table. For more information, refer to the System Requirements section in the Plant Applications Getting Started Guide document for the latest Plant Applications release.

ItemVersion
GE Operations Hub 1.7Operations Hub 1.7
Note: You can select an external UAA application while installing Operations Hub. However, if you do not select the external UAA, by default, Operations Hub installs UAA.
Web browsersChrome 80.0 or later , with minimum resolution 1366x768.
Devices:
  • iPad: Safari v13.1+, Chrome 80.0 or later with resolution 2048x1536
  • HP tablet: Chrome 80.0 or later , with minimum resolution 1920x1280
    Note: Devices supports only Unit Operations,Work Queue, and Non Conformance applications.
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Operating system64-bit Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Visual C++Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable packages to be installed on the Web Client node.
FrameworkMicrosoft® .NET Framework 4.7 or later
SQL serverSQL server 2016 (64-bit), 2017 (64-bit), or 2019 (64-bit and with mandate Cumulative Update 4 installed)
Note: Ensure that you have configured the SQL server database as the Plant Applications database. For more information, refer to the Plant Applications Getting Started Guide for the latest release.
Couch DB serverCouchDB version 2.3.1 installed and configured on a Windows machine.
Note: For more information on configuring CouchDB, refer to Configuring Apache CouchDB Settings.
Hard drive100 GB (minimum)
Processor2.4 GHz clock-speed Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 CPU or equivalent AMD Phenom CPU with 16 GB RAM
Note: For better performance, it is recommended to use a quad core (4-cores) processor for Process applications and octa core (8-cores) for Discrete or both applications.
Memory16 GB (recommended)
Note: You must have 32 GB or more if you plan to install Web Client (Both Process and Discrete), Historian, Operations Hub, Plant Applications, Message Bridge on the same node. However, it is recommended to install them in a distributed environment.

Port Requirements

Ensure that the ports described in the following table are opened before you install Plant Applications Web Client.
PortDescription
15672The default port for the RabbitMQ Message bridge required to communicate with the Plant Applications server for retrieving data updates.
8444The default port for the Tomcat server.
1433The default port for the Microsoft SQL server.
9095The default port for Kafka.
2185The default port for ZooKeeper.

Software Requirements

The installer identifies all available and missing software packages required before installing the Plant Applications Web Client.

You must install the following software packages before you run the installer:

If you do not install Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server, the following screen appears, and the installation is stopped.

If any of the following required software packages are not already installed on your computer, the installer installs them automatically:
  • Apache Tomcat version 9.0.35
  • Ruby 2.3.3
  • Ruby DevKit version 4.65.0.0
    Note:

    Ruby is required because the UAA Command Line Interface (UAAC) is dependent on Ruby.

  • NodeJS 8.12
  • Python 2.7.2
  • OpenJDK 1.8

Plant Applications Server Requirements

Ensure that the Plant Applications Server 8.1 is installed. For more information, refer to the Plant Applications Getting Started Guide for the latest release.

Install Operations Hub

For instructions, refer to the Operations Hub installation Guide provided along with the Operations Hub installation package.

Plant Applications Message Bridge Requirements

GE recommends that you configure the RabbitMQ Message Bridge in the Plant Applications server before installing the Plant Applications Web Client. For more information, refer to the Installing the Plant Applications Message Bridge section in the Plant Applications Getting Started Guide.