CAST Storage Service and PostgreSQL - Deployment requirements

Hardware

On-premise

Cloud services

Amazon Web Services EC2

The following requirements are based on CAST's own testing for the analysis of a single "large Application", using Amazon EC2 R5 Instances:

Amazon Web Services RDS

CAST supports PostgreSQL instances deployed via Amazon Web Services RDS. See also Accessing PostgreSQL on Amazon Web Services RDS.

Supported Operating Systems

CAST Storage Service

Operating System	Supported	Supported by ref.	Deprecated support	Notes
Microsoft Windows Server 2019				Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows 10
Microsoft Windows Server 2016				Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (Standard edition)				Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Standard edition)
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Standard edition)

PostgreSQL

Operating System	Supported	Supported by ref.	Deprecated support	Notes
Linux (all recent distributions)				See the following PostgreSQL documentation for more information: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/supported-platforms.html

Supported CAST Storage Service releases

CSS release	Bundled PostgreSQL release	Architecture	Default port no.	Supported	Supported by ref.	Deprecated support	AIP Core compatibility	Bundled with AIP	Notes
4.13.x	13.0	64bit	2284				AIP Core ≥ 8.3.29	-
3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3	9.6.11	64bit	2282				AIP Core ≥ 8.2.6	-
3.0.0	9.6	64bit	2282				AIP Core ≥ 8.2.6	-
2.0.7, 2.0.8	9.2.6	64bit	2280				AIP Core ≥ 7.1.x	-	From release 2.0.7, CSS has been unbundled from CAST AIP and is provided as a standalone component.
2.0.0 - 2.0.6	9.2.6	64bit	2280				AIP Core ≥ 7.1.x	AIP Core 7.1.x - 8.2.5
1.0.x	8.4.5	32bit	2278				AIP Core 7.0.x	AIP Core 7.0.x

Supported PostgreSQL releases

CAST does not provide a custom installer for Linux Operating Systems, however, you can install the following official PostgreSQL RDBMS on to a 64bit Linux Operating System (supported by PostgreSQL) and use it as a storage host for CAST AIP:

PostgreSQL release	Supported	Supported by ref.	Deprecated support	Notes
13.x				Support is available for PostgreSQL 12.x and 13.x (64bit) as storage, i.e. AIP schemas can be created on this version and analyses will run as expected. Some prerequisites do apply: Minimum required release of CAST AIP core: 8.3.23 Minimum required release of specific extensions - same as for PostgreSQL 10.x and 11.x - see below.
12.x
11.x				Support is available for PostgreSQL 10.x and 11.x (64bit) as storage, i.e. AIP schemas can be created on these versions and analyses will run as expected. Some prerequisites do apply: Minimum required release of CAST AIP core: 8.3.16 Minimum required release of some specific extensions: JEE Analyzer extension com.castsoftware.jee ≥ 1.0.19 The required minimum releases of these extensions are delivered as "shipped extensions" in AIP 8.3.16. .NET Analyzer extension com.castsoftware.dotnet ≥ 1.0.13 SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer extension com.castsoftware.businessobject ≥ 1.0.4 (LTS) C and Cpp Analyzer extension com.castsoftware.cpp ≥ 2.0.5-funcrel - iOS - Objective-C Analyzer extension com.castsoftware.cfamily ≥ 1.5.2-funcrel -
10.x
9.6.11				-
9.2.x				-

CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL running in encrypted SSL mode

Support is available for connecting to CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL instances running in encrypted SSL mode. See SSL encrypted mode configuration for CAST Storage Service and PostgreSQL:

CAST AIP core (any application provided with the CAST AIP "core" setup)		≥ 8.3.24
CAST Architecture Checker (standalone)		≥ 1.2.0-funcrel
CAST Dashboards		≥ 2.0.0-beta1
CAST Imaging (for Source Code configuration)		≥ 2.0.0-funcrel (when using Microsoft Windows traditional installer)
CAST AIP Console (AIP Node)		≥ 1.17.0-funcrel
Sherlock (CAST Support tool)		Sherlock delivered in AIP Core ≥ 8.3.25.

All official CAST AIP Extensions are compatible, however some extension require specific minimum releases:

Required ports

The following TCP ports must be opened on the server hosting CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL: