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Installation prerequisites

Product version requirements

Axway Financial Exchange 2.9.0 requires one or more of the Axway products listed in this table. Your business use case determines which of these products you need to install.

For required patches and service packs, go to the Axway Support website: https://support.axway.com.

Axway product Version Service Pack
Axway Composer 3.7.0 SP9
Axway Gateway 6.14.1 SP1
Axway Integrator 3.6.0 SP9
Axway Interchange 5.10.1 SP5
Axway Messaging 5.5.1
Axway PassPort 4.4.0 SP9
Axway Secure Relay (*) 2.3.0 SP1
Axway Sentinel 3.5.0 SP10
Axway Database 4.4.0 SP2
SWIFTNet Portal 1.6.0 Patch 1

(*) Secure Relay MA and Secure Relay RA can be used for EBICS Server firewall implementation.
(*) Secure Relay RA can be used for EBICS Client firewall implementation.

Product restrictions

Interchange must not be installed in FIPS mode.

PassPort must not be installed in FIPS mode.

Product dependencies

This section lists the dependencies between FEX products and other Axway products.

FEX RMA

FEX EBICS Server

Electronic Signature

Minimum hardware requirements

Product Disk space RAM CPU
EBICS Server 40 GB 8 GB 4 core  2 GHz
Axway Secure Relay (for EBICS Server) 1 GB 2 GB 2 core  2 GHz
EBICS Client for Gateway 1 GB 2 GB 2 core  2 GHz
SWIFTNet Portal 4 GB 2 GB 2 core  2 GHz
Axway Electronic Signature 10 GB 2 GB 4 core  2 GHz

Supported platforms

The platforms supported by each FEX product are listed in the relevant prerequisites section.

For a list of the platforms supported by each Axway Axway product, refer to the Axway 5 Suite Supported Platforms Guide, available from https://support.axway.com.

Supported databases

Refer to the specific business case requirements below.

For complete details of database prerequisites for the Axway 5 Suite, refer to the Axway 5 Suite Installation and Prerequisites Guide.

Specific business case requirements

EBICS Server

Refer to Prerequisites to installing EBICS Server

Electronic Signature (including embedded EBICS Client)

Refer to Prerequisites to installing Electronic Signature

FEX RMA

Refer to Prerequisites to installing FEX RMA

SWIFT

Supported platforms

For SWIFT connectivity only, install Gateway on Windows, AIX or SUN.

Important: Gateway cannot be installed on HP-UX for SWIFT message handling because the SWIFT-delivered components do not support HP-UX.

BIC+IBAN

You require a database if you use BIC+IBAN (for SWIFT or Banque de France repositories).

You can use your own third-party database software or Axway Database.

Supported databases

If you use a third-party database, install the database before you install Axway Financial Exchange.

QT2 implementation

The Axway Gateway add-on QT2 1.0.3 is delivered in the FEX 2.9.0 installation package. We strongly recommend you install QT2 1.0.3 SP3 or higher for AIX platforms and QT2 1.0.3 SP2 or higher for all other platforms. These service packs are available on the Axway Support website and include readme files with full instructions on the update procedure to be applied.

AIX prerequisites

The uncompress utility used to install FEX must be able to handle path names that contain more than 100 characters.

This is important for AIX platforms as the default utility is not able to handle this. It is also important for JBoss deliveries.

Related topics

Prerequisites to installing EBICS Server

Prerequisites to installing Electronic Signature

Port number assignments