CAST Architecture Checker - Deployment requirements

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Summary: information to help you plan your standalone CAST Architecture Checker installation.

Recommended hardware

CPU	Platform	RAM	DISK
1 processor X 4 core	64-bit	8GB min	240GB

Supported Operating Systems

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Note that the CAST Architecture Checker is a 64-bit application, therefore a 64-bit Operating System is required.

Operating System	Supported	Supported by reference	Notes
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit		✅
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64-bit (Standard edition)		✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit (Standard edition)		✅	Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit (Standard edition)		✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2016	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2019	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2022	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2025	✅

Supported CAST AIP releases

CAST Architecture Checker can check models against Management Service schemas installed from the following releases of CAST AIP
Extensions created from Quality Rule Models can be installed on the following releases of CAST AIP

CAST AIP	Supported
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Supported RDBMS

CAST AIP Supported Notes

CSS/PostgreSQL ✅ CAST highly recommends using CSS/PostgreSQL to benefit fully from all available functionality.

Oracle

✅

CAST AIP	Supported	Notes
CSS/PostgreSQL	✅	CAST highly recommends using CSS/PostgreSQL to benefit fully from all available functionality.
Oracle	✅	Some functionalities are not supported when using these RDBMS to host CAST AIP schemas - for example: CAST Architecture Checker - Installation process Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 Info Summary: step-by-step instructions for your CAST Architecture Checker installation. Note CAST does not support the upgrade of CAST Architecture Checker from any previous release. Therefore, CAST recommends uninstalling the previous release of CAST Architecture Checker and then installing the new release from scratch. Get the installation media You can obtain CAST Architecture Checker from CAST Extend: A ZIP file will be downloaded - unpack this ZIP file and proceed as described below. CAST Architecture Checker - Uninstall process Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 Step by step To uninstall CAST Imaging System, run the uninstaller located here: `%PROGRAMFILES%\CAST\Archi-Checker-QR\unins000.exe` Accept the Windows User Account Control prompt: Accept the warning prompt: The uninstall process will then start: A message is shown when the uninstall is complete: What is uninstalled? The uninstall process will remove the following items from the workstation: All files (and parent folder) in %PROGRAMFILES%\CAST\Archi-Checker-QR will be removed CAST Architecture Checker - CLI Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 Info Summary: This section of documentation provides an explanation of how to use the CAST Architecture Checker in an automated and repeatable way. How does it work? The CAST Architecture Checker CLI can perform the following actions: Check an Architecture Model against an Application (its not possible to run automated actions relating to Quality Rule models) To execute an action via the command line, you must specify the CAST-ArchiChecker-CLI.exe executable (rather than the CAST-ArchiChecker.exe executable which is used for the GUI). Command arguments are expressed as verbs introduced by a dash (-), followed by various mandatory arguments that must be enclosed with double quotes (") if containing blank spaces. Some command arguments should appear only once (such as -connectionProfile for example), whereas others can appear as many times as necessary.

Some functionalities are not supported when using these RDBMS to host CAST AIP schemas - for example:

CAST Architecture Checker - Installation process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for your CAST Architecture Checker installation.

Note

CAST does not support the upgrade of CAST Architecture Checker from any previous release. Therefore, CAST recommends uninstalling the previous release of CAST Architecture Checker and then installing the new release from scratch.

Get the installation media

You can obtain CAST Architecture Checker from CAST Extend:

A ZIP file will be downloaded - unpack this ZIP file and proceed as described below.

CAST Architecture Checker - Uninstall process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Step by step

To uninstall CAST Imaging System, run the uninstaller located here:

%PROGRAMFILES%\CAST\Archi-Checker-QR\unins000.exe

Accept the Windows User Account Control prompt:

Accept the warning prompt:

The uninstall process will then start:

A message is shown when the uninstall is complete:

What is uninstalled?

The uninstall process will remove the following items from the workstation:

All files (and parent folder) in %PROGRAMFILES%\CAST\Archi-Checker-QR will be removed

CAST Architecture Checker - CLI

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section of documentation provides an explanation of how to use the CAST Architecture Checker in an automated and repeatable way.

How does it work?

The CAST Architecture Checker CLI can perform the following actions:

Check an Architecture Model against an Application (its not possible to run automated actions relating to Quality Rule models)

To execute an action via the command line, you must specify the CAST-ArchiChecker-CLI.exe executable (rather than the CAST-ArchiChecker.exe executable which is used for the GUI). Command arguments are expressed as verbs introduced by a dash (-), followed by various mandatory arguments that must be enclosed with double quotes (") if containing blank spaces. Some command arguments should appear only once (such as -connectionProfile for example), whereas others can appear as many times as necessary.

CAST Architecture Checker on Documentation - V2

CAST Architecture Checker - Deployment requirements

Recommended hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Supported CAST AIP releases

Supported RDBMS

CAST Architecture Checker - Installation process

Get the installation media

CAST Architecture Checker - Uninstall process

Step by step

What is uninstalled?

CAST Architecture Checker - CLI

How does it work?