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Chapter 1 Installation Guidelines : Installation Overview

Installation Overview
 
If Deploying with TIBCO Administrator, Install it First
If TIBCO Administrator is used to deploy TIBCO BusinessEvents applications, you must install TIBCO Runtime Agent and TIBCO Administrator (on machines where you will deploy TIBCO BusinessEvents applications) before you install TIBCO BusinessEvents.
If TIBCO BusinessEvents is the first TIBCO product installed, it will not be found by TIBCO Administrator.
This requirement does not apply on machines where TIBCO BusinessEvents will be used for design-time activities only.
Using Oracle Coherence as Alternative Cache Provider
Only TIBCO BusinessEvents DataGrid is provided with TIBCO BusinessEvents. Alternatively, you can use a supported version of Oracle Coherence, for which you must have a license that is appropriate for your usage.
Using OpenSSH for TIBCO BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management
TIBCO BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management (MM) is a provided component. It is one of the options available for deployment, monitoring, and management. (If TIBCO Administrator is used in your environment, you can use it instead.)
OpenSSH is one of the options available to enable MM to perform remote start and deployment of TIBCO BusinessEvents engines running on Microsoft Windows. See the product readme for supported versions of the third party software.
Required and Optional Products and Supported Platforms
For details about supported platforms, related TIBCO software, and third party products, see the product readme file in the TIBCO_HOME/release_notes directory.
Installation History Log Files
Installation and uninstallation history is kept in log files in the .TIBCO directory within the installer’s user (or home) directory.
The folder names use this format:
install_month-day-year.time
uninstall_month-day-year.time
The installation log files record environment details such as the user that invoked the installer, hostname, operating system details, and so on.
 
 
TIBCO Home and Default Installation Directory
The installer prompts you to specify the TIBCO home (TIBCO_HOME) where you want to install TIBCO BusinessEvents. Each TIBCO home is a separate environment. You can install the same software into different environments safely, for example, for test, QA, and staging purposes. You can install multiple TIBCO products into the same environment or into different ones. See Using Multiple TIBCO Homes.
A TIBCO home has a name and a directory on disk. The directory is the root directory for all TIBCO products you want to install into this TIBCO home.
Microsoft Windows
The default installation location is the TIBCO_HOME where all TIBCO products are installed. Typically, TIBCO_HOME is c:\tibco.
The Start menu path to the executable files includes the environment as follows:
Start > TIBCO > TIBCO_HOME > TIBCO BusinessEvents 5.1
The name is also appended to the name of Windows services created by the installer.
UNIX
The default installation directory depends on who performs the installation:
For non-root users, the default installation directory is /<myhome>/tibco, where <myhome> is the home directory of the user.
Using Multiple TIBCO Homes
It is possible that certain versions of TIBCO software products installed on your computers may not work well together. You may also want to install multiple versions of the same product on the same machine, for example if you are testing the current release while using the prior release in production. To avoid any issues, one solution is to install each product in its own TIBCO home, under a common parent directory, for example called tibco. In the following example, be_40, be_50, bw_59 and administrator_57 are all separate TIBCO homes:

 
tibco/
      be_40/
            be
      be_50/
            be
      bw_59/
            bw
      administrator_57/
            administrator

 
Using an Existing Eclipse (or TIBCO Business Studio™) Installation
Using the bundled Eclipse software is recommended. However, you can optionally use an existing Eclipse installation. You can, for example, use the Eclipse installation provided with TIBCO Business Studio business modeling software. This option is not available with partial installers (commonly used for service pack releases).
Limiting Access to TIBCO BusinessEvents Installations
Here is another case for using an existing Eclipse installation. In some enterprises, users are given limited access to software, such as TIBCO BusinessEvents. All users, however, require full rights to the Eclipse installation because certain files are written during normal use of BusinessEvents Studio. In this case you must install Eclipse separately, in areas where users have permission to write.
See Using an Existing Eclipse (or TIBCO Business Studio) Installation.

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