Summary: information to help you plan your AIP for Imaging installation.

CAST Imaging

Traditional installer for Microsoft Windows

Software

Required

Notes

Host Operating System

Microsoft Windows

Windows 10
Windows 11
Windows Server 2022 (64bit) - supported in CAST Imaging ≥ 1.6.0
Windows Server 2019 (64bit) - supported in CAST Imaging ≥ 1.6.0
Windows Server 2016 (64bit)

Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.

JDK

A JDK (≥ 1.8.x 64bits) is required. Supported versions are as follows:

OpenJDK
Oracle Java

Powershell

The ability to execute Powershell scripts is required during the installation process.

Docker (Microsoft Windows or Linux)

Software

Required

Notes

Host Operating System

Microsoft Windows

See the Docker Desktop for Microsoft Windows system requirements: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/#system-requirements.

Linux

Recommended Linux distributions:
- all Linux distributions based on (or derived from) Red Hat

Third-party software required
for install on Docker (Linux and Windows)

Docker on Linux

When using the Docker Installer extension

Docker Engine ≥ 18.0
docker-compose latest stable release
curl

Docker on Microsoft Windows

Docker Desktop for Windows - latest version recommended, or one that provides:
- Docker Engine ≥ 19.03.5
- docker-compose latest stable release
- Hyper-V and WSL2 mode are both supported
- Containers for Linux must be enabled

CAST Imaging > Software requirements for CAST Imaging > switch_linux.jpg

Note that when using Hyper-V mode for Docker Desktop only, the following must also be configured:

Ensure that you configure Docker Desktop using the Resources > Advanced tab with a minimum of 8GB of RAM (more may be required) and 4 x CPUs (recommended). See https://docs.docker.com/desktop/settings/windows/#advanced for more information:

CAST Imaging > Software requirements for CAST Imaging > ram.jpg

Ensure that the parent folder of the unzipped Docker Installer extension files is configured in the Resources > File Sharing tab so that the installation files are mounted by the Linux containers. See https://docs.docker.com/desktop/settings/windows/#file-sharing and CAST Imaging installation for Docker on Linux or Microsoft Windows:

CAST Imaging > Software requirements for CAST Imaging > file_sharing.jpg

When using WSL2 mode, these changes are not required. Docker Desktop will automatically manage RAM memory and file sharing.

JDK

Optional

A JDK (≥ 1.8.x 64bits) is required if using SAML authentication to generate the public/private key pairs for SAML/SSL . Supported versions are as follows:

OpenJDK
Oracle Java

Kubernetes cluster

Software

Required

Notes

Kubernetes

Supported in CAST Imaging ≥ 2.1.0.

See https://github.com/CAST-Extend/com.castsoftware.imaging.kubernetessetup for more information.

Helm

License key

CAST Imaging requires a license key before any Application data can be imported. Please contact CAST Support to obtain your license key.

Required ports

Windows Service name

Docker container name

Description

Default Listening Port

Notes

CAST Imaging System - imaging-ETL

etl

CAST Imaging application management service.

9001

-

CAST Imaging System - Frontend service

nginx

CAST Imaging front-end web service.

80 (≤ 2.0.0-beta5)

8083 (≥ 2.0.0-beta6)

For ≥ 2.0.0-beta6, if port 8083 is not free, the next available port will be used.

From 2.1.0-funcrel this image is no longer pushed. Merged into "server".

CAST Imaging System - imaging-service

server

CAST Imaging back-end web service.

9000

-

CAST Imaging System - login service

login

CAST Imaging login and authentication service.

8084

From 2.1.0-funcrel this image is no longer pushed. Merged into "server".

CAST Imaging System - sourcecode service

sourcecode

CAST Imaging sourcecode service.

9980

From 2.1.0-funcrel this image is no longer pushed. Merged into "server".

CAST Imaging System - Neo4j Graph Database

neo4j

Neo4j Graph Database instance.

6362, 7473, 7474, 7687

-

End users accessing CAST Imaging - browsers

Browser	Supported	Notes
Microsoft Edge		Minimum supported release: Windows 10 Creators Update (1703)
Mozilla Firefox		Minimum supported release: ≥ 63.0
Google Chrome		Minimum supported release: ≥ 70.0

Analysis Service schema

Analysis Service schemas from the following releases of AIP Core are supported for data generation and import:

CAST AIP 8.3.x
CAST AIP 8.2.x

Currently, it is possible to extract data only from an Analysis Service which contains a single Application.
The actions generate snapshot or prepare snapshot (where the Application does not contain any Architecture Models, or transaction/data call graphs) must have already been run before data generation and import takes place. Note that where the prepare snapshot or generate snapshot actions have already been run and a subsequent "run analysis only" is executed on the entire Application or one single Analysis Unit within the Application, you must either run the prepare snapshot or generate snapshot options again BEFORE data generation and import takes place.

CAST Extend Offline/Proxy (optional) requirements

See:

CAST Storage Service / PostgreSQL storage

See:

CAST Storage Service and PostgreSQL - Deployment requirements

Supported features of Directory Systems

Directory Services		Microsoft Active Directory is full supported. Other Directory Services are supported in AIP Console/CAST Imaging but will generally require additional configuration.
Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services	Partially	Microsoft AD LDS does not have all the information in the server itself, but may provide a pointer to another server where that information is stored. Depending on what is stored, authentication and authorization may fail if pointing to a AD LDS server and not enough information is present. If this occurs, the configuration should be modified to point to a full Microsoft Active Directory server.
Global Catalog Servers (GCS)		Sometimes required if an Active Directory or other Directory Services server contains multiple domains or domains and sub-domains. as the Global Catalog Server contains LDAP information for all domains. In this case the LDAP URL should point to the GCS server URL (normally same as LDAP URL with port 3268 for LDAP and 3269 for LDAPS)
Proxies	Partially	If the proxy has no authentication configured, then they are supported. No support for any Single Sign On (SSO) proxies.
Referrals	Partially	If a referral is used, the machine name needs to be able to be resolved the Doman Name Service (DNS) process. This may require that DNS or a local hosts file is modified to ensure that it occurs.
SSO (Single Sign On)		Supported for AIP Console/CAST Imaging via SAML
Nested Groups		-