Command Line Startup Option Reference

Engine startup options used for testing.

Command Line Startup Options
Option Description
-h
Displays this help.
--propFile
When you execute be-engine, it searches for a property file of the same name in the working directory. This property file provides startup values and other parameters to the executable. You can specify the path and filename of a startup property file explicitly using the --propFile parameter.

For example, if you start the engine from a directory other than BE_HOME/bin, then you would generally use --propFile to specify BE_HOME/bin/be-engine.tra.

--propVar
Used to provide a value for a specified variable. This value overrides any other design-time value. The format is propVar-varName=value . For example to specify the value of the %jmx_port% variable used in TRA files to configure a JMX connection, you might use this: --propVar jmx_port=4567.
-p
Allows you to pass one or more supplementary property files to be-engine. Specify the path and filename.

This is not needed very often. See Supplementary Property Files .

-n
Allows you to provide a name for the TIBCO BusinessEvents engine.

The name provided here is used in the console and in log files. If you do not provide a name, the host name of the machine is used.

-d
Starts the debugger service on the engine for remote debugging.
-c
Specify the path and filename for the Cluster Deployment Descriptor (CDD) file. TIBCO BusinessEvents looks first in the file system, and then in the EAR file.

The default is default.cdd.

-u
Specify the processing unit ID you want to use for this engine. This ID must exist in the CDD file you reference in the -c option.

The default is default.

EAR filename and path
Specify the path and filename for the EAR file you want to use.

If you do not specify the EAR file name then the engine will use the property tibco.repourl as the EAR file path and name. To use this property, add it to the be-engine.tra file. If you deploy using TIBCO Administrator this property is added to the generated TRA file automatically.