Prerequisites

DC Discovery alarm monitoring software suite works only on 64-bit operating systems, listed in following article: Operating systems.

In basic there are only three prerequisites for DC Discovery to work properly:

  • .NET Framework 4.5,
  • Crystal Reports Redistributables for Visual Studio 2015 and
  • SQL Server Express 2012.

For DC Discovery Client installation, SQL Server Express 2012 is not required, resulting in only two prerequisites:

  • .NET Framework 4.5 and
  • Crystal Reports Redistributables for Visual Studio 2015.

Depending on operating system version additional prerequisites are required for SQL Server installation. Following table contains ordered list of recommended installations and belonging operating sytems:

# Installation Operating system
1 Service pack 2 Windows Server 2008
2 Service pack 1 Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
3 Windows Installer 4.5 Windows Server 2008
4 Visual C# Redistributables for Visual Studio 2008 & Visual Studio 2015 All versions.
5 .NET Framework versions: 3.5, 4.0, 4.5.2 & 4.6 All versions.
6 Power Shell 3.0 Windows Server 2008
7 Power Shell 5.0 Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
8 Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 & Visual Studio 2015 All versions.
9 SQL Server Express 2012 All versions.
NOTE:
All above installations are downloadable from Microsoft Downloads except Crystal Reports Redistributables, downloadable from SAP Community Network Downloads. For easy installation we have prepared single installation package that contains all above prerequisites, downloadable from DC Discovery Downloads.