Deciding Whether to Use a New or Existing Installation Environment

Before installing ActiveMatrix BPM, you must decide whether to install it into an existing installation environment or into a new installation environment separate from other TIBCO products.

TIBCO recommends the following:

  • If you are upgrading an existing installation of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, use the existing TIBCO_HOME.
  • If you are installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM to work together with other TIBCO products that are already installed, such as TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Service Engine, and to share the same TIBCO Administrator as these products, then use the existing TIBCO_HOME in which these products are installed.
  • If you are installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM for the first time, and either there will be no other TIBCO products that share TIBCO Administrator or else you have not yet installed any such products, then select a new TIBCO_HOME.