Zephyr System Requirements

Starting October 11, 2024 (Zephyr Enterprise 8.2), the Zephyr Enterprise documentation moved from its current location on Atlassian to a dedicated, standalone Zephyr Enterprise documentation page. Please see:  https://support.smartbear.com/zephyr-enterprise/docs/en/zephyr-enterprise/zephyr-installation-and-upgrade-guides/zephyr-system-requirements.html


Zephyr Enterprise must run in an isolated instance where no Jira or any other Tomcat is running.

  • Zephyr Enterprise should only be installed on its own server. If you are running a Jira instance, it should be installed on a different server.
  • We recommend you have Zephyr Enterprise installed on a separate instance from where you have your Jira/Tomcat installed.
  • RabbitMQ and ZE-Services should be installed in a separate server as we require Java 17 (optional for the Zephyr Enterprise version).

General System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows ServersLinux 
Windows Server 2016

Red Hat Enterprise 64-bit (the latest supported version is RHEL 8)

Windows Server 2019CentOS 8 64-bit

Ubuntu/Debian 64-bit

SUSE/openSUSE 64-bit

Database Requirements

Evaluation EnvironmentProduction Environment
The Zephyr Enterprise installer provides an option for using Embedded MySQL for the database. This should only be used for evaluation purposes and not for production instances.We recommend you always use an external database for improved performance and easy maintenance when setting up your production instance/server. This provides you with proper system performance for your Zephyr Enterprise instance.

Network Ports Used:

Tomcat Ports

Ports UsedUsed By

80- for Root user

1024- for non-root user

Tomcat
443 - for root user if SSL
8443 - for non-root users if SSL
Tomcat
8005 - Used for start/stopTomcat
8009 - AJP ConnectorTomcat
9200 - DefaultElasticsearch
5701, 5702, 37000, 37001 - DefaultHazelcast - Embedded/Cluster
8000Job Runner 

Embedded DB Ports

Ports UsedUsed By
37638 - Only used if embedded DB is setupEmbedded DB

Load Balancer Ports

Ports UsedUsed By
80 - DefaultLoad Balancer
8443 - If SSL, use this instead of 80Load Balancer
1433 - Default (SQL Server listens to this port by default)SQL Server/MSSQL

Elasticsearch Ports

Ports UsedUsed By
9200 - HTTPElasticsearch


RabbitMQ Ports
 (optional)

Ports UsedUsed By
15672RabbitMQ 3.12.10
5672RabbitMQ 3.12.10


ZE - Services  
(optional)

Ports UsedUsed By
8081ZE-Webhook Service
8082ZE-Consumer Service
8083ZE-AuditService
8084ZE-AuditProcessor