Chapter 3 Installation on UNIX : Before Installing on UNIX Systems

Before Installing on UNIX Systems
TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0.1 provides a partial product installation  It requires a prior installation of release 3.0.0.
Before starting the installation procedure, review the topics in this section to determine that your system meets the basic requirements and that you have the prerequisite software installed.
Also read Chapter 4, After Installing on UNIX and Chapter 6, Migrating from Earlier Versions for important steps you may have to take before and after upgrading.
The installer places all libraries and other products required by TIBCO BusinessEvents into the TIBCO_HOME directory. During installation, the installer checks for the availability of all dependent products in the target system. If any of the dependencies are not available, the installer lists them and gives you the option to cancel or go back (GUI and console modes) or immediately exits (silent mode). Otherwise installation proceeds.
Supported Platforms
The following is a list of supported platforms for UNIX:
IBM (POWER):
Hewlett-Packard:
Red Hat (x86)
SUSE (x86)
Solaris
Within a single cache cluster, you can use a mixture of 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems.
Disk space required in each case is 160MB. See Installer Disk Space Requirements in Temporary Area for additional disk space requirements.
Installation Guidelines
All Installations—Install Required Software First
Some details below do not apply to the 3.0.1 partial installer. If you are first installing BusinessEvents 3.0.0, however, follow the instructions.
Before you can install TIBCO BusinessEvents, you must install TIBCO Runtime Agent and then TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is required for design-time work, but is not required for BusinessEvents to function at runtime (unless the design of your projects requires it). However, the installer requires ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks to be installed before BusinessEvents. Runtime use of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks requires a licensed version of the software.
Runtime Installations
Select custom installation and select only the Server option.
Installer Account
TIBCO 5.x products can be installed by a regular (non-root) user and super-user (root). Different users can install the same product at different locations.
Product dependencies at install time are resolved at user level through the installation registry maintained at user's home directory. See Installation Registry for more information.
Windowing Environment
A windowing environment such as CDE (that is, X11 Windows) is required to run the installer in GUI mode. It is not required for a console installation or silent installation.
Installation-Related Files
Installer Disk Space Requirements in Temporary Area
The installer launcher first extracts a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a temporary directory and uses this JVM to launch itself. The size of the extracted JVM differs from platform to platform.
On UNIX platforms the following disk space is required in the temporary area:
If your system does not have sufficient free disk space in the above temporary area, you can still run the installer with a different temporary area by using the following option when starting the installer:
 
install_package_name.bin -is:tempdir /new_tmp
where /new_tmp has sufficient free disk space.
Disk Space Requirement in User's Home Directory
On UNIX platforms when a regular (non-root) user installs a TIBCO product, the installation registry (two vpd files) is maintained in the user's home directory. As more products are installed, entries are added into these vpd files.
The user's home directory must at least have 500 KB of free disk space.
Installation History
The installer and uninstaller creates a file called TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml in the same location where the installation registry is created. Each time an installation and uninstallation is performed, entries are appended to the file.
User’s_Home_Directory/TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml
The file TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml therefore contains the record of all installation and uninstallation activities of all products, features and components.
Do not edit, rename, move, or remove the TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml file.
Installation Registry
The installer maintains an installation registry. The registry location depends on platform. This section explains where the registry files are located on UNIX platforms. The files have vpd as a prefix, which stands for Vital Product Database.
The installation registry is maintained in the following files in the user's home directory:
 
User_Home_Directory/vpd.properties
User_Home_Directory/vpd.properties.tibco.systemName
If installation is performed by super-user (root), the installation registry is maintained as follows:
On Linux, in the /root directory as two vpd files.
On AIX, in the /usr/lib/objrepos directory as two vpd files
Installation Log Files
Installation and uninstallation log files are created in the TIBCO_HOME/log directory.