Exacta Maestro™ customer Technical Requirements

Table of Contents

Introduction

This document is meant to be a technical reference guide for all technical requirements for an Exacta Maestro™ installation.

Network Diagram

Network Diagram

Workstation Hardware

Purpose - allows an operator to view a portal to interact with the Exacta Maestro™ Fleet director service. Computer type - Workstation Tower *System spec requirements

  • Processor: Intel i5 or better (4 core CPU minimum)
  • RAM: 16GB or better
  • Hardrive: 256GB Flash or better
    • Partition: C:\system 200GB | L:\Logs 56GB
  • Network: 1GB port or better (added NIC card optional)
  • OS: Windows 10 Pro or better
  • GPU: Nvidia Quadro card (recommended for Unity scene rendering)

Hardware setup will be the responsibility of the customer, this includes installation of operating system as well as antivirus, monitoring tools, and backup software.

System updates will be the responsibility of the customer, this includes and is not limited to, all Windows patching, anti virus updates, Etc.

Exacta Maestro™ Virtual Machines

Manager Node

Purpose - Used for management, deployment, and peripheral applications outside of the service fabric cluster.

  • System spec requirements
  • Processor: 4 CPU cores
  • RAM: 32GB
  • Disk Partition: C:\System 500GB | D:\Data 500GB
  • Network: 1GB

Application and Windows Features

Required Installation/configured by
Windows Server 2019 customer
SQL Server customer
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) customer
Service Fabric SDK customer
Exacta Maestro™ Bastian Solutions
.NET Framework 4.8 or greater FULL Install customer
Windows File Share (domain joined system only) customer
Notepad++ customer
Windows Powershell 5.1 customer

Updates

customer is responsible for all Windows patches in this environment. Regular updates can be applied, or updates can be disabled, this is to be decided by customer. Bastian Solutions will provide and install any patches for the Service Fabric Runtime, Certificates & other software installed by Bastian solutions as needed.

Maintenance

Bastian Solutions requires remote access to perform Service Fabric runtime upgrades and certificate roll overs. Runtime upgrades should be able to roll through updates during production hours or customer must provide a maintenance window for Bastian Solutions prior to any certificate expirations.

Backup and recovery

The Exacta Maestro™ Application server is a static environment. Recommend nightly backups of the logs database(s). The backup and recovery process will be the responsibility of customer.

Network Ports

Service/Application Port Value TCP/UDP
Powershell Remoting 5986 TCP
Windows SMB & Remote 135,137-139,445 TCP
SF Remoting Application 1900-19003, 19080 TCP
Application communication 20001-21024, 4915 TCP
TDA Proxy Server Host 5672 TCP

Cluster Nodes

Purpose - Designates the route for the product as it travels through the conveyor system.

  • System spec requirements
  • Processor: 4 CPU cores
  • RAM: 32GB
  • Disk Partition: C:\System 500GB | D:\Data 500GB
  • Network: 1GB

Application and Windows Features

Required Installation/configured by
Windows Server 2019 customer
Service Fabric SDK customer
.NET Framework 4.8 or greater FULL Install customer
Notepad++ customer
Windows Powershell 5.1 customer

Updates

customer is responsible for all Windows patches in this environment. Regular updates can be applied, or updates can be disabled, this is to be decided by customer. Bastian Solutions will provide and install any patches for the Service Fabric Runtime, Certificates & other software installed by Bastian solutions as needed. Recommended to roll the updates and restarts of the nodes so not to crash the cluster.

Maintenance

Bastian Solutions requires remote access to perform Service Fabric runtime upgrades and certificate roll overs. Runtime upgrades should be able to roll through updates during production hours or customer must provide a maintenance window for Bastian Solutions prior to any certificate expirations.

Network Ports

Service/Application Port Value TCP/UDP
Powershell Remoting 5986 TCP
Windows SMB & Remote 135,137-139,445 TCP
SF Remoting Application 1900-19003, 19080 TCP
Application communication 20001-21024, 4915 TCP
TDA Proxy Server Host 5672 TCP

High Availability

Bastian and the customer will work together to define a cluster design.

Description

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that is a container orchestrator for deploying and managing microservices across a cluster.

High Availability

Network Metric Requirements

Metric Measure
Connection speed between server Minimum 10Gb connection speed between Servers and Storage arrays (Where setup is applicable)
Connection speed Minimum 1Gb connection speed between other devices (i.e. workstations/bots to servers)
Latency Below 30ms between any critical system components (such as Bots, Workstation, Cluster nodes, etc.)
Utilization Recommended less than 40% average
Collision Rate Recommended less than 5%
Average Broadcast Frame Rate Recommended less than 5%
vLAN Implementation Recommended to isolate network traffic; Hard-wire LAN connectivity where applicable is recommended

Remote Access

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

As part of the warranty support period, and any continued support agreement, customer must provide Bastian Solutions remote connectivity to the network. The remote connection will initially be used for interface testing and remote configuration of the cluster. After go-live, the connection will be used to monitor the system, troubleshoot problems and perform upgrades/maintenance. customer will provide Bastian Solutions and any other vendors that require remote access.

If Citrix or VMWare Horizon is used, customer will provide Bastian Solutions users admin access to shadow, take control and share clipboard visibility to access the thin clients remotely via CITRIX. Bastian Solutions requires powershell remote access directly to the nodes.

Once securely connected to the network, Bastian Solutions will typically use Remote Desktop Connection and Powershell Sessions to connect to the server systems. Bastian Solutions requests User IDs for:

  • Bastian Solutions Software Project Manager(s)
  • Bastian Solutions Software Support Manager(s)
  • Bastian Solutions Software IT Analyst(s)
  • Bastian Solutions Developer(s)