TIBCO ActiveSpaces® Administration

Software Release 2.2

May 2016

  • Important Information
  • TIBCO Documentation and Support Services
  • Overview of Administration
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces® provides an administrative API and two administrative tools: the Admin object provided in Java, .NET, and C, the as-admin command-line tool and the ActiveSpaces Monitoring and Management (ASMM) web-based tool.
  • Deployment Modes
  • Best Practices for Node Discovery
    Specifying discovery when using ActiveSpaces security, choosing the right discovery point, and specifying multiple TCP discovery nodes for fault tolerance are some approaches you can use for node discovery.
  • Admin CLI for Activespaces Administration
    Administrative tasks for TIBCO ActiveSpaces are performed through a utility called as-admin, or the Administration Command Line Interface (Admin CLI). These tasks include connecting to a metaspace, creating a space, and displaying information about existing spaces and members.
  • The as-dump Utility
    You can use the as-dump utility to view backup files that are used with ActiveSpaces shared-nothing persistence.
  • The as-agent Utility
    ActiveSpaces provides an agent process called as-agent. The main purpose of as-agent is to join all distributed spaces in the specified metaspace as a seeder. You can run as-agent on any host.
  • The as-convert Utility
    The as-convert utility converts ActiveSpaces shared-nothing files from one format (or one version) to another (usually higher).
  • Administering ActiveSpaces Security
    ActiveSpaces provides the as-admin utility to configure and administer the security aspect of ActiveSpaces. You can also use the ActiveSpaces API to manage access to secured metaspaces.
  • ActiveSpaces Utilities as Windows Services
    You can use the as-service.exe utility for execution of ActiveSpaces utilities, such as as-agent, ASMM and the ActiveSpaces Hawk MicroAgent, as Windows services.
  • The ActiveSpaces Hawk MicroAgent
    The TIBCO ActiveSpaces Hawk Microagent is an ActiveSpaces managed application instrumented with the TIBCO Hawk® Application Management Interface (AMI) protocol and which exposes a set of methods that allow the connected Metaspace to be monitored and controlled by TIBCO Hawk tools.
  • ActiveSpaces Monitoring and Management
    TIBCO ActiveSpaces provides a Web-based administrative GUI, called ActiveSpaces Monitoring and Management (ASMM), which connects to one or more metaspaces and monitors the metaspaces, metaspace members, and connected spaces. Monitoring information includes detailed statistics about members and spaces and performance graphs for space operations.
  • Cross-site Replication Concepts
    Cross-site replication is a feature that is used for disaster recovery. Using cross-site replication, you can dynamically backup your primary metaspace to a passive metaspace located at a remote site.