Guidelines for Other Platforms

This section provides information that is specific to other UNIX platforms.

Supported Platforms and Installation Packages

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is available on the other UNIX operating systems listed in the following table. For supported versions and the latest changes, see the readme.txt file.

Warning: This release only supports 64-bit server executables and client libraries.
Other Platform Distributions.
Note: The platforms listed in the following table do not support Central Administration.
OS Hardware Installer Package Suffix
AIX IBM PowerPC aix_power.zip
HP-UX IA64 (Itanium) hpux_ia64.zip
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

IBM System z linux_s390x.zip
Solaris Sun SPARC sol_sparc.zip
Solaris Intel x86_64 sol_x86_64.zip

Root Access and Administrative Privileges

If TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is installed and tibemsd is started as root, it drops root permissions after the server starts.

This protects the EMS server from security exploits. Once the server has dropped root privileges, it cannot write to the files created during the installation. As a result, it is not able to create configuration and log files. To avoid this conflict, create the necessary directories and assign the appropriate privileges to the regular user ID with which the EMS server is started.

Load the JVM on AIX

The JVM is required to run certain features, such as extensible security and database storage.

In order to load the IBM JVM on AIX, you must set module_path in the tibemsd.conf to point to the directories containing the libjvm.so and its dependent libraries. These libraries are part of your JRE installation.