This is a listing of the hardware and software requirements for Peppers
For use competitor of about 15 users, it summarizes the HW/SW configuration:
CPU | 1 core (2 Thread), 2,4 GHz |
RAM | 4 GB |
Storage | 800 GB |
Operating System | CentOS 7 Linux |
Network | Gigabit |
Software | Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 |
MariaDB 5.5.4.4 | |
Java JDK 1.8.0 | |
ImageMagick 6.7 | |
Ghostscript 9 |
Assuming instead the use of the service Peppers by about 30 users, you summarize the following configurations of minimum and recommended:
| Minimum | Recommended |
CPU | 2 core (4 Thread) 2,4 GHz | 6 core (12 Thread) 2,6+ GHz |
RAM | 8 GB | 12/16 GB |
Storage | 1 TB* * dependent on the storage needs of the Customer | 1 TB* * dependent on the storage needs of the Customer |
Operating System | CentOS 7 Linux | CentOS 7 Linux |
Network | Gigabit | Gigabit |
Software | Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 | Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 |
MariaDB 5.5.4.4 | MariaDB 5.5.4.4 | |
Java JDK 1.8.0 | Java JDK 1.8.0 | |
ImageMagick 6.7 | ImageMagick 6.7 | |
Ghostscript 9 | Ghostscript 9 |
As regards the client component, plugin Peppers for InDesign currently in production is compatible with Adobe InDesign CS 5.5 and higher.
The new plugin is compatible to today exclusively with Adobe InDesign CC2015, it is planned to extend the compatibility with Adobe InDesign CC2014.
The plugin Peppers communicates with the server by opening a socket on TCP port 11898 (value configurable anyway).
In addition to this, of course, we must consider the TCP port 8080 for the direct exposure of Tomcat, or TCP port 80 if you want to configure a reverse proxy extension using Apache2.