Platforms and operating systems

Replication Agent 15.5 requires one of the platforms and operating system versions listed in Table 1-1.

**Table 1-1: Platform and operating system requirements**
Platform	Operating system version
HP-UX Itanium^a	HP-UX 11.31 (64-bit only)
IBM RISC System/6000^a	IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1 (64-bit only)
Linux/Intel^a	Linux x86 and x64^b: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4:Kernel version 2.6.9-42.EL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1:Kernel version 2.6.18-8.e15 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10: Kernel version 2.6.16.21-0.8
Microsoft Windows	Windows x86 and x64^b: Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server XP Professional Windows Server Vista 6.0.6000
Sun Solaris (SPARC)^a	Sun Solaris 9, 10 (64-bit only)
a. Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server is not supported on any UNIX or Linux platforms. It is supported only on Microsoft Windows.b. Replication Agent binary is 32-bit word size that runs on both the 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

Table 1-2 lists the references for Java-related patches for Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. Ensure that the required patches are installed before you install Replication Agent.

**Table 1-2: Operating system patch requirements**
Platform	Reference
HP-UX Itanium	HP-UX Java patch information page
IBM AIX	AIX download and service information page
Sun Solaris (SPARC)	Java SE downloads page