Starting TIBCO Administrator on Microsoft Windows

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Chapter 1 Introduction : Starting TIBCO Administrator on Microsoft Windows

Starting TIBCO Administrator on Microsoft Windows

To launch TIBCO Administrator, you first start the administration server.

Starting the Administration Server

Two Microsoft Windows Services must be running for the server to be available. After creating an administration domain, the services are installed and set to start automatically. To start the services the first time, navigate to the Services dialog, find the TIBCO administration server for your domain and click the Start button. Repeat for the TIBCO Hawk Agent service.

If the TIBCO Hawk Agent is started as a service, mapped drives on the machine are not recognized by deployed services. The workaround is to start the TIBCO Hawk Agent from the command line.

Alternatively, to start on the command line:

1.

Start the administration server by typing the following into a command-line prompt:

   % cd <install-path>\tibco\administrator\domain\<domain-name>\bin

   % tibcoadmin_<domain-name>.exe

2.

Start the TIBCO Hawk Agent, which performs the TIBCO Administrator monitoring functions, by typing:

   % cd <install-path>\tibco\tra\domain\<domain-name>

   % hawkagent_<domain-name>.exe

The following message appears when starting the administration server from the command line:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester).

The log4j logging class is included in the Tomcat web server that is bundled with TIBCO Administrator. TIBCO Administrator provides a logging mechanism and does not use the logging facility provided by log4j. The message can be ignored.

Starting the TIBCO Administrator GUI

You can launch the TIBCO Administrator GUI by entering the appropriate URL into your browser, or you can use the Start menu.

Starting from a Web Browser

1.

Open a web browser and connect to this URL for the TIBCO Administrator GUI:

  http://<host-name>:<port>/administrator/servlet/tibco_administrator

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host-name is the name of the machine on which the administration server has been installed. If this is the same machine you are currently on, you can use localhost as the machine name.

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port is 8080 by default. If you have used the TIBCO Domain Utility to assign a different port, use that port number instead. If you created multiple domains on one machine, the port is incremented by 10 for each domain. For example, the second domain will use 8090.

You can enter http://<host-name>:8080. This displays a list of domains, the port each domain is using, and the TIBCO software available on that port. You can pick a domain from this list to go to the login screen.

2.

Log in. For the first login, this must be the user specified as the domain administrator user with the Domain Utility.

You can then assign other users privileges to log in.

Starting from the Start Menu

To start TIBCO Administrator from the Start menu, your default browser must be set to one of the following:

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Google Chrome 32.0.x

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0.x, 10.0.x, 11.0.x

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Mozilla Firefox 26.0.x, 28.0.x

Follow these steps:

1.

Select Start > All Programs>TIBCO>TIBCO Administrator <version> > TIBCO Administrator.

2.

Log in. For the first login, this must be the user specified as the domain administrator user with the Domain Utility. That user can then assign other users privileges to log in.