System requirements

This section lists what hardware and software is necessary for optimal performance of Sales-n-Stats. Sales-n-Stats is developed for Java 2 platform (J2SE™) and uses either built-in or remote MySQL database for data storage.

As the Sales-n-Stats system consists of several components which may be located on different machines, we divided the system requirements into several groups corresponding to the specific components of Sales-n-Stats. Requirements for Sales-n-Stats Live edition include requirements for the hosting where Data Collector is installed and requirements for the machine where Data Center and Operator Terminal are located.

Data Collector hosting requirements

Make sure the web server your hosting company will use for the Data Collector has support for:

1.	PHP version 4.1 or later till PHP version 5 (no extensions are required). The 'Safe mode' must be disabled in PHP configuration. For more info visit the PHP site at http://www.php.net

2.	MySQL database server.

3.	If the monitored website has a https version make sure that the domain is the same for both http and https. For example http://example.com and https://example.com.

If these requirements are met, ask your hosting administrator to create a MySQL database (you will need it for the Data Collector) and to provide you with the following information:

1.	MySQL server name;

2.	database name;

3.	MySQL username and password. CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE permissions should be granted to the MySQL user as well as the full data access.

Data Center and Operator Terminal requirements

Make sure your workstation meets the following requirements:

1.	It has at least 512 Mb RAM/1.5 GHz CPU, at least 200 Mb (300 Mb recommended) of free space on HDD.

On Unix and MacOS, check that Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5.0 (J2SE 5.0, more information available at http://java.sun.com/j2se/5.0) is installed. It is much easier to use bundled JRE but if your Sales-n-Stats distribution does not have bundled JRE (which is the case with Unix and MacOS distributions) and you do not have it on your machine, download JRE from the Web: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.html (this page gives links for downloading J2SE™ JRE for various platforms).

3.	If you intend to use VoIP, your computer needs to have a sound card, a microphone and speakers and to be connected to the Internet directly (without HTTP proxy).

Sales-n-Stats Data Center needs a database for its work and can be set up to use either the embedded Sales-n-Stats database or a MySQL database. Using MySQL has certain advantages over the embedded database, as MySQL demonstrates better performance and stores your data more safely. To use a MySQL database instead of the embedded one, you need to have MySQL on your local machine or in the local network. Data Center supports MySQL version 3.23 or later. Download MySQL for free from http://www.mysql.com.