XFRACAS Architecture and Requirements

XFRACAS is a web-based application that serves the needs of engineering teams of any size. Based on the .NET Framework, it is designed to be n-tier, scalable, distributable, robust and able to be deployed across multiple servers or on a single computer.

Server Requirements

If you plan to host the database and website on the same server, you will need the following:

  • Windows 2016 or newer
  • .NET 4.8
  • IIS with support for serving ASP.NET
  • SQL Server 2014 (SP3) or newer OR Oracle 18c or newer

If Microsoft Office is installed, it must be 64-bit.

Client Requirements

Once the website has been implemented, users can access it with any browser that supports the following doctype:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

This includes most common browsers (such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox) that are available for Windows, Mac and tablet operating systems.

If the site is private (e.g., http://InternalServer/XFRACAS), an application administrator may need to provide instructions for accessing the site on the internal network from mobile devices (e.g., via VPN or some other method).

These are the same requirements as for SEP, which provides web-based access to a variety of metrics and analyses performed in ReliaSoft desktop applications (Weibull++, XFMEA, etc.). Both applications can be deployed together on the same database and web server(s).

IMPORTANT: Microsoft recommends that Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) should be disabled by default in Excel.

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