Are there any pre-requisites to installing ESM?

ESM Server runs on the following platforms:

– 64 bit Linux (RHEL4 or newer recommended)
– 64 bit Windows Server 2008 (R2 or newer)
– Solaris 10 (x64 or SPARC, Update 7 or newer)

For storage, the ESM Server application requires a third-party database to be installed. The following databases are supported:

– PostgreSQL 8.4 or newer
– Oracle 11g or newer
– MySQL 5.1 or newer

Finally, as a pre-requisite to the server installation, a copy of Oracle’s JDK must be available (minimum version 1.6.0_31)

The list of architectures supported by the ESM collection agents can be found in this FAQ response