1. Technical and operational requirements Sergey Sukhonosov, et al. Partnership Centre for the IODE Ocean Data Portal MINCyT, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7 – 11 October 2013

2. 2 Minimum technical requirements VM image distribution CPU: x32/x64 architecture RAM: 2Gb HDD: 20Gb

3. 3 Minimum technical requirements Standalone distribution CPU: x32/x64 architecture RAM: 2Gb HDD: 1Gb (160Mb for JBoss + temporary and log files)

4. 4 Recommended technical requirements VM image distribution CPUx2 64-bit, virtualization enabled RAM: 4Gb+ HDD: 30Gb+

5. 5 Recommended technical requirements Standalone distribution CPUx2 64-bit RAM: 4Gb+ HDD: 16Gb+ (backups and data holdings)

6. 6 Operation system requirement UNIX/Linux (Solaris, OpenSUSE, SUSE, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, etc.), Windows XP/2003/7/8 (32x or 64x) Recommended: CentOS x64 v.6

7. 7 Network requirements JBoss AS is running on port 8081 (advised to set up to 80 if no any web servers are running on installation server site) SNDM Data Provider communicates with SNDM ODP regional (MINCyT) node: Integration Server MINCYT is.mincyt.gob.ar (80, 8080 HTTP) Service Bus MINCYTsoi.mincyt.gob.ar (18080, 80 UDP, SOAP) Security and SSO MINCYT portal.mincyt.gob.ar (8080 HTTP) Geographic dictionary web service (PC for ODP) www.esimo.net (81 SOAP) –

8. 8 Operational requirements SNDM DP Administrator should performs: Server monitoring; Analyze daily report from Integration Server on metadata availability and actual status; Data source availability; Communication with upper-level node to formalize and solve technical problems.