FME Server Specifications

FME Server is currently available for deployment on Windows systems, with additional platform support coming in summer 2008.

Supported Platforms

Windows:
Windows Vista (for fixed and floating licenses)
Windows 2003 Server†
Windows XP
Windows 2000

† FME 32-bit will run on Windows 2003 Server 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

UNIX:
IBM® RS/6000 AIX 5
Linux® Intel x64 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 5.0)
Mac® OS X 10.4 Tiger (Universal Binary)
Sun® SPARC Solaris™ 8, 9, 1

Windows Specifications

 

Hardware

The minimum system requirements necessary to run FME Server on a Windows systems are:

  • a Pentium-based PC running Windows 2003 Server or XP
  • at least 2GB of RAM
  • a hard disk with at least 400 MB of free space - this does not include the space required to hold the source and destination data sets

Increased performance can be attained by increasing the available RAM. Please note that system I/O speed will also affect transformation throughput.

Software

A database must be available in which to store the FME Server repository. Any standard database may be used, such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.

In order to use the Web Front End component of FME Server the system must have:

  • a web server capable of running web-based applications at a Java V1.5 and a JSP V2.0 level or higher.
  • if installing any of the included FME Server web services, the web server must be capable of running servlets (either directly or via an integrated servlet engine plugin) at a Java V1.5 level (or higher) and that conform to the Java Servlet 2.3 (or higher) specification.
  • access to a web browser, such as Internet Explorer or FireFox, for viewing the webpages of the Web Front End component.

Supported Formats

Any FME supported read formats can be used as an input for FME Server, and any FME supported output formats can be used as output for FME Server in batch and download usage patterns.  For online data streaming requirements, the stream download service of FME Server can be used to stream data in these popular formats:

  • GeoRSS
  • KML (Google Earth)
  • GeoJSON
  • GML/XML
  • HTML
  • VRML
View the complete list of FME-supported formats.