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FTS Server Prerequisites

The FTS Server must be installed on a Microsoft Windows computer. The FTS launcher runs as a Windows Service process. Individual FTS Servers run as Windows processes.

The FTS Server can communicate with WorldServer installations on Windows, Solaris or Linux operating systems.

FTS System Requirements

It is important to understand the following requirements before you download and install the FTS Server files.
  • Minimum operating system — Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (32-bit Windows operating system).
  • (Recommended) Separate machine to host the FTS Server.

    You can have multiple FTS Servers connected to your WorldServer installation. The servers can share a single Windows computer. SDL recommends that you install FTS Servers on a separate computer from WorldServer, but in lower-demand installations a single FTS Server can reside on the same computer as a Windows installation of WorldServer.

  • .NET Framework 4.5.2 (provided).
  • Shared directories for WorldServer and the FTS Server, supporting the shared file system connection and the FTS Server log.

    These are defined in the WorldServer general.properties file, with the name ftsserver_shared_directory and are required as an entry for the FTS server installation process.

  • Installing the latest FTS requires the vcredist_x86.exe version of the C++ 2013 redistributable package, available here .

Databases Supported

When deploying WorldServer and FTS in a mixed Unix/Windows environment and using NFS, Windows Active Directory must be configured with Identity Management for Unix. This enables you to map Windows user names to Linux user names.

All WorldServer and FTS Server Service 'run-as' users must have read/write access to:
  • The directory paths in UNC format for AIS file system mounts in WorldServer
  • The UNC path defined in general.properties to 'ftsserver_shared_directory' (Example: //servername/pathname)
  • The UNC path defined in general.properties to WorldServer's 'temp_file_path' (Example: //servername/pathname)
The FTS Server uses the WorldServer database, and therefore works with the two databases that WorldServer supports:
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle

Microsoft Office File Types

To process Microsoft Excel 2000-2003 (XLS and XLT files) file types, you must install Microsoft Excel 2007 or Microsoft Excel 2003 with the Office 2007 compatibility pack on the computer that runs the FTS server. To process Rich Text Format (RTF) file types, you must install Microsoft Word 2007 or Microsoft Word 2003 with the Office 2007 compatibility pack on the computer that runs the FTS server.