Altair® Panopticon

 

System Requirements

The Panopticon Visualization Server is supported on these operating systems:

q  Linux

q  Windows 7 (64-bit)– For Development Environments Only

q  Windows 10 (64-bit) – For Development Environments Only

q  Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)

q  Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)

The Panopticon Visualization Server also requires:

q  Java 8+ JRE (64-bit) or Open JDK 8+ (64-bit), and Open JDK 11 are supported after installing the dependency files that are distributed with Panopticon Visualization Server.

 

   NOTE

Unzip the contents of the dependency package file provided by Panopticon into the TOMCAT_HOME/lib folder to be able to run Altair Panopticon software on JRE 8+ and Open JDK 8+.

 

 

q  Apache Tomcat 9.0.x

 

   NOTE

Starting with Tomcat 9, Debian Linux implements a security policy which puts a harder default restriction on which folders a Tomcat 9 web application can write to.

The change is described in full detail here:

https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/tomcat9/-/commit/3ca5cbdc2f970470341926354f210dff032fc5f3

Quoting from the release notes:

·         Tomcat is sandboxed by systemd and only has write access to the following directories:

Directory

Actual Directory

/var/lib/tomcat9/conf/Catalina

/etc/tomcat9/Catalina

/var/lib/tomcat9/logs

/var/log/tomcat9

/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps

 

/var/lib/tomcat9/work

/var/cache/tomcat9

·         If write access to other directories is required, override the service settings. This is done by creating an override.conf file in /etc/systemd/system/tomcat9.service.d/ containing:

[Service]

ReadWritePaths=/path/to/the/directory/

Ensure to restart the service afterward with:

o     systemctl daemon-reload

o     systemctl restart tomcat9

 

 

The Panopticon Visualization Server is supported for deployment on the following cloud providers:

q  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

q  Microsoft Azure

q  Google Cloud Platform

q  Oracle Cloud

Containerized deployment with Docker Linux containers is also supported.

Supported browsers include:

q  MS Internet Explorer 11+

q  Google Chrome 81+

q  Safari 13+

If using the Database connector, you must separately have installed JNDI/JDBC drivers for your data repository (databases and other sources) for Panopticon Designer (Desktop) to connect to your data.

   NOTE

·         The Panopticon Visualization Server requires administrative privileges during installation. Administrative privileges are not required after installation is complete.

·         The Panopticon Visualization Server does not support Tomcat 7.x, Tomcat 8.0.x, or Tomcat 8.5.x.