System Requirements for customX Release 8.0

System landscape

The following illustration outlines a customX system landscape that is frequently implemented. This can differ from customer to customer within the productive, test and development system. customX is an on-prem software for which customX GmbH does not provide any hardware.

Requirements productive and test server

The system requirements of the servers within the production and test system are the same. If the job splitting option is booked, the requirements are independent of the server role (dialog or job server). If, on the other hand, a demilitarized zone (DMZ) is used, these change slightly. Pleace notice the requirement section for the proxy server.

customX works with small amounts of data and uses other programs to generate documents. Therefore, the system requirements for the web server on which customX is installed are very low and are shown in the table below. When setting up your web server, take into account that the tools that customX relies on must also be installed there and often have additional requirements.

Requirements proxy server

To increase security, you can set up a demilitarized zone (DMZ) in which you install a customX proxy server. This forwards harmless requests from the public Internet to the production servers in the internal network. The following illustration outlines a common system landscape of the production system.

The system requirements of the machines behind the firewall do not change. The proxy server merely represents the web component of the dialog server that is published to the outside. The system requirements for the proxy server are therefore very low. Provision should be made for an appropriately large hard disk space, since customX automatically creates a library of 3D web models. This library ensures that already created models are loaded from memory and not recreated. Depending on the set of rules, this library is sometimes more or less large.

Requirements PC development of rulebook

To develop and test the customX rulebook, customX administrators work in real-life situations on computers that are independent of server operation. Usually, these are the PCs at the personal workplace. In comparison to the frequently used CAD software, the system requirements are considerably lower, so that these CAD products should be considered when selecting a computer.

Our employees use commercially available notebooks for about € 1,200, which are replaced every two to three years. This has established itself as the best price-performance ratio for us.