Pre-Installation Requirements for the Enterprise Edition (Multi-Tier) Request Broker and Bridge Agent(s) for ODBC Data Sources (a/k/a, the ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET-to-ODBC Bridge), for Windows DBMS Requirements Your target data source must be SQL compliant. You must have all information necessary to configure an ODBC connection to the data source. Software Requirements You must possess third-party or native ODBC drivers that connect to your target data source. A client portion of these drivers must be installed on the same machine as the Enterprise Edition (Multi-Tier) Request Broker and Bridge Agent(s) for ODBC Data Sources. You must know whether the local ODBC components are 32-bit or 64-bit. The Enterprise Edition server components must match the bit format of the local ODBC components, not the OS. Configuration Requirements The Bridge Agent(s) for ODBC Data Sources must be installed on the same machine as the ODBC driver that connects to the target data source. A System DSN based on the local ODBC driver should be pre-configured and tested to successfully connect to the target data source. You must know whether TCP ports 5000 and 8000 are already in use on the Broker host. These ports are the defaults used by our Request Broker and Web-based Admin Assistant. If other services are using these, you will need to assign different (unused) ports to the new services during installation. For best results, the Enterprise Edition server components should be installed while logged in as the owner of the local ODBC driver. All ODBC-related environment variables should be set prior to installation. This is typically accomplished simply by logging in as the owner of the local ODBC driver. Next... Proceed to Installation & Configuration