System Requirements

Last updated on Mar 28, 2024

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Hardware

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Ports

• The following ports must be open on the firewalls and network equipment (routers) of your Agent and/or Coordinator machines (details below). All port numbers can be changed during installation and in the Coordinator Manager.

  Port	Required on Which Machines	Notes
  443	Coordinator	Required for license activation and telemetry.
  8000	Coordinator	Incredibuild Manager Port: Enables communication with the Coordinator Manager user interface.
  31100	Coordinator (internal)	Coordinator Server Port: Enables the Coordinator Interface to communicate with the Coordinator Server.
  31104	Coordinator	Agent Communications Port: Enables the Coordinator to receive updates from your Agents.
  31105	Agent	Agent Service Port: Enables communication between the installed Agent and the Coordinator.
  31106-311xx	Agent	Helper Ports: One port is needed per core with a Helper Core license on each Agent.
  32103	Coordinator	SSL: Secured Communication with the Coordinator
  50052	Coordinator (internal)	License Service Port: Required to communicate with the license service. Only required for communication between Incredibuild components inside the Coordinator machine.
  5672	Coordinator (internal)	Message Transport Port: Used for communication between Incredibuild components. Only required for communication between Incredibuild components inside the Coordinator machine.
  4369	Coordinator	Required by RabbitMQ, which is used by Incredibuild. This port cannot be changed.
  51100	Build Cache Endpoint	Build Cache Port
  6379	Build Cache Endpoint (internal)	Redis port: Required for communication between Build Cache Service and Redis database internally in the Build Cache Endpoint machine.

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Network

• Network Bandwidth: Bandwidth includes both upload and download speeds. Minimum 100 Mbps, recommended 1 Gbps or higher, and significantly higher for Build Cache Endpoints (see table above).
• Location: The machines should be on same physical LAN or connected through a VPN (same LAN is recommended).
• Coordinator: The coordinator must have a static IP or a hostname recognized by DNS.
• License Activation: Requires communication between the Coordinator machine
  and https://lvep.incredibuild.com:443 (our license validation service).
  • Proxy Management: If you are using a proxy to manage outbound communication for your on-prem machines, you should define a windows environment variable called HTTPS_PROXY with your proxy’s URL as the value on your Coordinator machine. This allows us to route traffic through your proxy. The proxy must have a static IP or a hostname recognized by DNS. For example: https://my.proxyserver.com:1234 or https://85.90.30.8:1234. Incredibuild does not currently support proxies that require authentication.
• Incredibuild Cloud: Incredibuild requires communication between all machines in your Incredibuild environment, as well as some communication with Incredibuild Cloud’s management services. For details, see Cloud Network Requirements.

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RabbitMQ

Incredibuild installs and uses RabbitMQ on the Coordinator, and the Coordinator cannot be installed on a machine that already has RabbitMQ installed.

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Antivirus

The following should be excluded from the active antivirus on the Initiator Agent machine:

• Incredibuild installation folder.
• The folder of the source code that will be executed.
• For Visual Studio – when using Incredibuild with Visual Studio, it is recommended to exclude Visual Studio installation folder. If the entire folder is not excluded, it is mandatory to exclude the following Visual Studio executables: ‘devenv.exe’, ‘devenv.com’, and ‘MSBuild.exe’.

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Storage

• The initiator machine must use SATA or NVMe solid state storage for the source files and the output directories.
• Another factor that influences the required storage space is the number of builds that IncrediBuild saves in the Build History database. The more builds you save, the more storage space you need. You can set this value in the Max builds to preserve in DB parameter in the Agent Settings dialog box.

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Operating System

• Supported Operating Systems:
  • Windows: 8.1, 10, 11
    • Windows 11 (or higher) is required for Intel CPUs gen 12 and later.
  • Windows Server: 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022
  • 64-bit is required for: the Coordinator, Build Cache Endpoints, and Initiators using local Build Cache.
• Permissions: Installation requires Power user permissions or higher.

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Coordinator User Interface

• Screen resolution: Recommended 1920 x 1080, Minimum 960 x 1080
• Supported browser: Chrome 86 or higher with TLS 1.2 enabled.

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Supported Tools

For details, see Supported Tools.