Nprinting 17.x 18.x and higher Unsupported Configurations & Dedicated Machine Requirement

Unsupported configurations

• Qlik NPrinting 16 and Qlik NPrinting Designer June 2017 cannot be installed on the same computer.
• Qlik NPrinting Designer June 2017 cannot manage Qlik NPrinting 16 projects (.nsq files), but you can import them.
• Qlik NPrinting Server 16 and Qlik NPrinting June 2017 Server or Engine cannot be installed on the same computer.

• Qlik NPrinting Engine and Server and Qlik Sense Server cannot be installed on the same computer.

  There are no known incompatibilities between these two products, but in a production environment, Qlik NPrinting should be installed on a separate machine (virtual or physical) from Qlik Sense because Qlik NPrinting Engine and Server will consume all the available resources of the computer they are installed on. This may lead to Qlik Sense crashing because of lack of resources.

• Qlik NPrinting Engine and Server, and QlikView Server should not be installed on the same machine.

  There are no known incompatibilities between these two products, but in a production environment, Qlik NPrintingshould be installed on a separate machine (virtual or physical) from QlikView Server because Qlik NPrinting Engine and Server will consume all the available resources of the computer they are installed on. This may lead to QlikView Server crashing because of lack of resources.

• QlikView Desktop versions prior to versions listed above are not supported.
• QlikView Desktop and Microsoft Office cannot be distributed as virtualized applications. They must be installed locally on the same physical or virtual machine where you install the Qlik NPrinting components.
• No operating systems other than Microsoft Windows are supported. For example, you cannot install Qlik NPrinting Server on a Linux computer.
• You can only install one instance of Qlik NPrinting Server, Engine, or Designer on a computer.
• You can only connect to one Qlik Sense cluster from a Qlik NPrinting Engine.

Network Front End Proxy Servers, Network Load Balancer systems such as F5, and Reverse Front End Proxy Servers are not supported for Qlik NPrinting deployments.

REF: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/September2017/Content/DeployingQVNprinting/Supported-unsupported-configurations.htm


There are some suggestions when installing on a shared machine but that is only for Demo purposes and is not supported. Although only Qlik Sense is mantioned it applies to QlikView server as well.
https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/September2017/Content/DeployingQVNprinting/Installing-nprinting-sense-single-computer.htm

Note that the suggestions include:

• We recommend not using this configuration for a proofs of concept because it could return false results. The concurrent usage of resources by Qlik NPrinting and Qlik Sense could cause the system to fail. This does not happen in a correctly configured production environment.

To limit the effects of contextual usage of resources:

• assign more hardware resources (more RAM, more CPUs) to a virtual machine
• reboot the computer often so that resources are released
• These suggestions do not completely resolve this problem.