Supported platforms

Eloquence B.08.40 is supported on the following platforms and operating systems:

HP-UX

HP-UX 11.31 on Itanium hardware. This version will no longer include any PA-RISC libraries for use with the Aries emulation. Please let us know if you require the Eloquence PA-RISC libraries on Itanium.

The Eloquence B.08.40 release no longer supports PA-RISC hardware and HP-UX versions before 11.31.

Linux

The Eloquence B.08.40 release supports 64-bit Linux environments on Intel/AMD hardware. Eloquence includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
Linux distributions RHEL 8.5, SLES 15SP3 and Ubuntu LTS 2020 were tested and are supported along with newer versions.

The Eloquence B.08.40 release no longer supports 32-bit Linux distributions. While 32-bit applications are fully supported a 64-bit operating system is required.

Experimental support for Eloquence on the 64-bit ARM platform is available from the deb repository.

Windows

Eloquence B.08.40 is available for 64-bit (x64) Windows. Supported minimum versions are: Windows 10 or newer, Windows Server 2016 or newer.

The Eloquence B.08.40 release no longer supports 32-bit Windows installations. While 32-bit applications are fully supported a 64-bit operating system is required.

Eloquence B.08.40 is installed in a separate directory.

HP-UX and Linux

The Eloquence B.08.40 software is installed to the "/opt/eloquence/8.4" directory. This allows Eloquence B.08.40 to be installed in parallel with previous Eloquence releases.

An existing installation of a previous Eloquence release is not updated or replaced when installing Eloquence B.08.40. It may be uninstalled once it is no longer used. The installation procedure does not copy or migrate the configuration of a previous Eloquence release.

Windows

By default, Eloquence B.08.40 is installed to the "Eloquence\8.4" directory below "Program Files".

Eloquence B.08.40 requires a license key version B.08.40 or above. For a new Eloquence installation or when upgrading from a previous Eloquence version a new license key must be obtained to use the Eloquence server components.

Please refer to Eloquence B.08.40 License Key documentation for additional details.

Obtaining Eloquence

Please note that downloading and installing the Eloquence B.08.40 software is subject to the Marxmeier license terms.

The Eloquence B.08.40 release is available for download from the Eloquence web site: https://eloquence.marxmeier.com/download/B0840.

For the Linux platform Eloquence provides yum and deb package repositories to make it easy to install and update Eloquence on a variety of Linux distributions. Please refer to the Linux installation documentation for details how to install from a repository for a specific Linux distribution.

Please note that downloading and installing the Eloquence B.08.40 software is subject to the Eloquence license agreement.

Installing Eloquence

Eloquence installation follows the conventions of the respective platform. For a detailed description, please refer to the following platform specific installation instructions.

HP-UX

The HP-UX installation instructions provide information on supported HP-UX releases, required HP-UX patches and system prerequisites.

The HP-UX kernel parameters document describes the HP-UX kernel configuration parameters required to use Eloquence B.08.40.

Linux

Linux installation instructions provide information on supported Linux releases, system prerequisites and installation along with distribution specific notes.

Eloqunce systemd support on Linux provides information on systemd use with Eloquence to manage server processes.

The Linux kernel parameters document describes the Linux kernel configuration required to use Eloquence B.08.40.

Windows

Windows installation instructions provide information on supported Windows versions, system prerequisites and installation along with platform specific notes.

Configuring Eloquence

The B.08.40 Eloquence configuration document provides detailed information on configuration changes, such as modified installation and configuration directory and file names, updated config templates.