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4.4 Third-Party Hardware Support
4.4.1 General
The market increasingly requests support of standard server hardware. Many companies have strong
partnerships with hardware vendors or internal policies regarding hardware to use. Typically those
customers have maintenance agreements with hardware vendors like IBM, Compaq or HP who take
responsibility for all their hardware.
Delivering turnkey solutions with both proven hardware and software remains one of the major strengths of
Kofax. By opening our architecture to allow installation of all KCS software on Microsoft certified servers we
enable additional business with hardware vendor centric companies or at least make it easier by being able
to offer this option.
4.4.2 How to Find a Compatible Machine
The description is divided in three steps:
In the first step you have to check the standard requirements which are minimum requirements. So there
is no discussion about to leave one of the conditions out. The second step describes “how to use the
Microsoft hardware compatibility list”.
4.4.3 Minimum Requirements
For a compatible machine the following parts are significant. Pay attention not only to a single component.
Most hardware related problems result from a combination of components and drivers.
Note: The running machine has to recover independently after a power failure.
Component requirements Remarks
Processor: single CPU Speed oriented on market standard. (e.g. 1.5 GHz)
Memory: 512 MB For minimum memory requirements see
operating system demand and the system
performance section in this manual.
Hard disk: single KCS software requires around 500 MB of disk space.
Additional space is required for the TCOSS file structure.
The proper calculation of the file structure size includes
the consideration of the number of users, recipients,
short time archive, send orders, number of files, etc. See
system performance section for further information.
Ethernet
(LAN): one 100 Mbit/s or faster. If there is no number chip for
licensing available (e.g. via parallel port dongle TC93)
then the LAN MAC address is used for licensing (use
TP80.DLL V7.11.06 or later)
Notice: Third-party hardware has to meet all legal requirements for installation in the respective country
(e.g., CE, UL, CSA).
For further information about special hardware requirements regarding different KCS server applications
refer to the product related requirement list at the end of this chapter.