Using the Patch Manager Utility

The Patch Manager utility provides a simplified user interface to apply and revert patches. You can also determine the version of the ActiveMatrix Platform and any hotfixes applied using this utility.

The Patch Manager utility, tibamx_patchmgr, is available in the directory where you installed TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM. For example, on Windows platforms C:\Program Files\tibco\amx-bpm\amx\n.n\bin\, where n.n is the version ActiveMatrix Platform (if you only need to know the version, the n.n in this path provides that, but the Patch Manager Utility also provides information about all hotfixes that have been applied).

Use the following command to describe all the patches that have been applied to the specified TIBCO Host instance:

tibamx_patchmgr describeAppliedPatches -configHomePath <CONFIG_HOME> -instanceName <TIBCO_Host_Instance_Name>

Where,

  • CONFIG_HOME is the location of the BPM configuration folder that you specified at installation. For example, on Windows platforms, C:/ProgramData/amx-bpm/tibco/data folder where the TIBCO Host instance to be described exists, and

  • TIBCO_Host_Instance_Name is the name of the TIBCO Host instance.

    Note: The location of the CONFIG_HOME folder must be specified using the POSIX style paths - using forward .i.e, slashes as directory separators.
    Note: Use help patchManagerCommands for details about the standard arguments for all the Patch Manager commands.

    The following example illustrates running the Patch Manager utility on an RHEL installation:

    C:\Program Files\tibco\amx-bpm\amx\3.3\bin>tibamx_patchmgr.exe describeAppliedPatches -configHomeLocation C:/ProgramData/amx-bpm/tibco/data -instanceName "Admin-AMX BPM-AMX BPM Server"

The response:

Invoking describeAppliedPatches
 -configHomeLocation C:\ProgramData\amx-bpm\tibco\data
 -instanceName Admin-AMX BPM-AMX BPM Server
			
TIBCO_CONFIG_HOME location: C:\ProgramData\amx-bpm4.1GA\tibco\data
TIBCO Host instance name: Admin-AMX BPM-AMX BPM Server
 Patch Id [amx.platform.patch:3.3.0.HF13]:
 TIBCO ActiveMatrix Platform 3.3.0 Hotfix-013