Chapter 3. System Requirements

Common Prerequisites

• Set up an account on the Red Hat Customer Portal at https://access.redhat.com. For more information, refer here: Section 2.1, “About the Red Hat Customer Portal”.
• Review the supported configurations and ensure your system is supportable: https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/111663.
• Ensure that your system is up to date with Red Hat issued updates and errata.

ZIP/Installer Prerequisites

• Administration privileges for the installation directory.
• Ensure that the chosen JDK has been extracted (or installed). Refer to the JDK's documentation for information on how to do this.
• On Microsoft Windows Server, ensure that the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables have been set, otherwise shortcuts will not work.
• On Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, ensure that an unzip utility has been installed.

RPM Prerequisites

• Register the server on the Red Hat Network.
• Subscribe to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server base software channel appropriate to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux version.
• Subscribe to the JBoss Application Platform for Server sub-channel, in the JBoss Enterprise Platform group.
• A Java 6 JDK is required. This can be obtained by subscribing to the supplementary software channel for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation. For example; the channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 installed on i386 architecture is rhel-i386-server-supplementary-6.

  Important

  A Java 6 JDK is required, even if you wish to use a Java 7 JDK.