Software

The system’s software includes operating systems, browsers, relational databases and video drivers. Some software modules run on the controller and others on the Supervisor PC.
System/driver Supported Comments
Operating system for the Supervisor station Windows 10 x64

Windows 2016 x64

Windows 2019 x64

From the release of Niagara 4.9, the following operating systems are no longer supported:

Windows 7 x86

Windows 7 x64

Windows 8.1 x86

Windows 10 x86

Windows Server 2012 x64

Controller stations run under the QNX operating system, which is provided.

Browser for the Supervisor station Internet Explorer 6.1 and later

Mozilla Firefox 5.0 and later

Niagara Web Launcher

Google Chrome 79

For configuration only, use Workbench and Niagara Web Launcher. The Web Launcher application supports any browser view that requires the WebApplet.

Google Chrome 75 supports only the monitoring and loading of HTML views.

JRE Plug-in for browsers (applicable to the WebApplet environment) Oracle Java Version 8, update 241

High-level sanity test done with the latest JRE8 update 212 dated 18 April 2019.

Web Launcher supports both 32–bit and 64–bit JRE.

Relational database in a Supervisor station MySQL

MS SQL Server 2016

MS SQL Server 2017

From the release of Niagara 4.9, the following database versions are no longer supported:

MS SQL Server 2012

Oracle 11g

MySQL 8.0 is supported but was not tested.

Controller stations use an HSQL database, which is provided.

Video drivers nAxis: Axis Video Driver

nMilestone: Milestone Video driver (Professional and Professional plus editions)

Milestone Xprotect Video driver )Professional plus and Corporate editions)

Milestone Professional plus (Xprotect Professional) NVR Version 2018 R3 Build: 5924 and 2009 R2

Milestone Xprotect Corporate NVR Version: 2019 R3 13.3a Build 44