Installing TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent as Windows Service

You can install TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent as a Windows service and configure it to start automatically or manually.

Procedure

  1. Open the be-teagent.tra for editing. The be-teagent.tra file is located at the <BE_HOME>\teagent\bin folder.
  2. Add the following Windows service configuration properties and save the file.
    ntservice.name=<short name for Windows NT service>
    ntservice.displayname=<display name of the service>
    ntservice.starttype=<type of start - automatic or manual>
    ntservice.binary.path.absolute=<absolute path of be-teagent.exe>
    ntservice.interactive=false
    For example:
    ntservice.name=TIBCO-BETEA-Agent
    ntservice.displayname=TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent
    ntservice.starttype=automatic
    ntservice.binary.path.absolute=C:/tibco/be/5.6/teagent/bin/be-teagent.exe
    ntservice.interactive=false
  3. Open the command prompt as administrator and go to the location of the be-teagent.exe file.
    For example,
    cd C:\tibco\be\5.6\teagent\bin
  4. Run the following command to install TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent as Windows service.
    be-teagent.exe --install

Result

After successful installation, the TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent service is listed in the Window services list.

What to do next

If you have set the start type to manual, run the following command to start the service:
net start <service_name>
For example:
C:\tibco\be\5.6\teagent\bin>net start TIBCO-BETEA-Agent
The TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent service is starting.
The TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent service was started successfully.