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Published 08/08/2002

Chapter 1

Overview of Risk Manager Installation

The Risk Manager Installation Guide provides instructions for installing CyberSource® Risk Manager.

This guide also provides instructions for configuring the following components for use with Risk Manager:

• BEA WebLogic® Server 6.1, Service Pack 2
• Windows® 2000 Server or Solaris 8 Server
• Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 or Oracle® 8i database

This guide does not provide instructions for installing products other than Risk Manager.

Intended Audience

The Risk Manager Installation Guide is intended for the following users:

• System administrator — administers the application system
• Database administrator — installs and configures the database and maintains database access controls

System Requirements

To run CyberSource Risk Manager, your system must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Windows 2000 with 400 MHz or higher Intel® Pentium II-compatible CPU, or Solaris 8 Server with SPARC CPU
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Oracle 8i database
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
• 256 MB RAM allocated to your Java virtual machine (JVM)

If you need more memory for your JVM, see Adding JVM Memory for the WebLogic Server.

• 100 MB of available hard-disk space

You must also install BEA WebLogic Server 6.1 with Service Pack 2 on your server. All of your Risk Manager servers must run the same version of BEA WebLogic Server.

If you use clustering with BEA WebLogic, you can cluster Risk Manager.

System Security

Your system architecture should include a firewall between your application server and any untrusted clients. The firewall should deny direct access to any other servers in the system.

Related Documentation

The following documents are also essential for implementing and using Risk Manager:

• Risk Manager User's Guide
• Risk Manager Developer's Guide
• Risk Manager Custom API Developer's Guide