Server manual

About the server manual

With this manual, you'll learn how to do the following for a production environment:

How to install an Encap server.
How to set up an Encap server.
How to maintain an Encap server.

Installation

The installation process of an Encap server is efficient due to the pre-packaged distribution archive. You also need to install:

A database management system
A reverse proxy (optional).

We will provide the Encap server-specific information that you will need to get the database management system and reverse proxy set up for use with the Encap server.

Requirements

Minimum hardware recommendations:

Intel/AMD Quad-core CPU (or similar)
4 GB RAM
150 GB disk
100 Mbit Ethernet

Software requirements:

Encap server is verified to work on Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4.
A server with Oracle Java/OpenJDK 21 or 25 installed.
Access to a database server MySQL 8.0 or Oracle 19.3. Either on-premise or in the cloud: AWS RDS, GCP Cloud SQL.
Device client specific requirements which can be found in the device client documentation.
Open files limit must be at least 2048 or higher.