Installation Environment

Before installation, make sure the system meets all the prerequisites. First, decide on the installation environment and folder and then download and extract the installation package.

  • TIBCO_HOME is the top-level installation directory for TIBCO products.
  • TIBCO_HOME is referred to as the installation environment.

Installation environments isolate product installations; a product installed into an installation environment does not automatically access components in other environments.

An installation environment consists of a name and a folder.

  • The name identifies the environment and it is appended to the name of the Windows services created by the installer. It is a component of the path to the product in the Windows Start > All Programs menu.
  • The folder contains the installed software. When you install, you can choose a new installation environment or an existing installation environment.
Set up the installation environment as follows:
Option Description
If a previous installation of the TIBCO product did not use the TIBCO Universal Installer The TIBCO Universal Installer does not detect the folder it uses as an installation environment folder. If you wish to use the existing location as the installation folder, create a new installation environment and choose the folder where the other products exist.
If you plan on installing in an existing installation environment Stop all processes that are using Java from TIBCO_HOME
If you plan on installing on a machine on which runtime objects (Administrator server, TIBCO Host instances, and nodes) are running Stop all the processes corresponding to the objects.
If you plan on installing the SOA Development profile or a custom profile containing TIBCO Business Studio Create a new installation environment