PADS4 Installation Manual

System Requirements

PADS4 CTRL Center is a web based management portal on top of PADS4 Foundation and is able to control a PADS4 system via the web browser. Most common browsers are supported.

For now the PADS4 Clients setup co-exists with the PADS4 Foundation setup. Do note that a valid SMA is required to the use new functionality.

PADS4 Windows applications and PADS4 CTRL Center

PADS4 CTRL Center can be used together with the PADS4 Windows based applications such as the PADS4 Scheduler, PADS4 System Management, PADS4 Agent and all other Windows based applications.

The user is able to start one or more Windows based PADS4 applications (depending on the licenses assigned), and at the same time open the PADS4 CTRL Center portal using the same user credentials.

Requirements PADS4 Foundation & CTRL Center

• PADS4 version 4.12 or higher must be installed before installing PADS4 CTRL Center
• Minimum 4 GB, 2 cores
• Recommended 8 GB, 4 cores
• Full installation size 819Mb
• 64 bit OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019.

Check out the PADS4 Hardware Requirements page for detailed information

Prerequisites PADS4 Foundation

PADS4 Foundation will install all prerequisites.

• NDS Package Manager
  Small installation tool made by NDS, which is used to install, update or remove the PADS4 CTRL Center. When this tool is uninstalled, you won’t be able to uninstall PADS4 CTRL Center.
• Microsoft .NET Core Runtime 2.2.6 & Microsoft ASP.NET Core 2.2.6 – Shared Framework
  The new PADS4 middleware services used by the PADS4 CTRL Center, make use of the .NET Core frameworks
• Erlang OTP 2.0 (9.3) & RabbitMQ Server 3.7.8
  When uninstalling manually make sure that, you first uninstall RabbitMQ and then Erlang
• NGINX webserver

Prerequisites that require internet connection for downloading

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2 (needs internet connection to download)
  Framework component is most likely to be available on all systems. If on a certain old system this component is missing, PADS4 will try to download it from the internet.
• Powershell 3.0 which is available on all windows operation systems except Windows 7 for which PADS4 will try to download it from the internet..

All prerequisites are available in the setup except for .Net framework 4.6.2 & Powershell 3.0.