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TIBCO Administration Domain

A TIBCO administration domain is a set of hardware and software resources. TIBCO Administration Domain gives an overview of a domain’s elements.

Understanding the domain before installing the software is important because the domain is set up during installation. Typically, the set-up depends on the phase of the project:

•	During early stages, each developer typically installs the complete TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks package, including the TIBCO Administration server, on one machine and develops and tests the project there.

•	Later, for final testing and production, the development team uses one TIBCO Administration Server which manages different components (engines and adapters) running on different machines.

The advantage of an administration domain is that the components of your integration project automatically know about each other. They can be monitored as a group. Security, that is, access to both processes and data stores, is shared across the administration domain.

The administration domain is managed by a TIBCO Administration Server, which is assisted by a TIBCO Runtime Agent running on each machine in the domain.

TIBCO Administration Server

The TIBCO Administration Server manages the administration domain. The server is installed only on one machine in the environment and can be accessed with the browser-based TIBCO Administrator GUI.

The Administration Server’s main responsibilities are the following:

•	Enforce security for the domain. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks supports both authentication and authorization of users that want view access or full access to the run-time components.

•	Manage registration, that is, add deployed projects and machines to a domain.

•	Send appropriate information to each machine’s TIBCO Runtime Agent when a project is deployed, and pick up alerts sent by those Runtime Agents.

•	Start and stop process engines and adapters.

•	Manage engines or adapters running in fault-tolerant mode if fault-tolerant setup has been performed.

TIBCO Runtime Agent

When you install a TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks component or a fully integrated TIBCO ActiveEnterprise adapter on a machine, a TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) is automatically installed. The TRA has two main functions:

•	Supplies an agent that is running in the background on each machine.

−	The agent is responsible for starting and stopping processes that run on a machine according to the deployment information.

−	The agent monitors the machine. That information is then visible via TIBCO Administrator.

•	Supplies the run-time environment, that is, all shared libraries including third-party libraries.

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