Installation Prerequisites

If you plan to install in an existing installation environment, it is recommended to stop all the processes that are using Java from TIBCO_HOME.

Before you run TIBCO Universal Installer on your Windows or UNIX system, you must login as a user with appropriate permissions, and your system must meet hardware and software requirements as mentioned in the following sections.

Some software is required, and the rest is optional. Before you run the installer, make sure you are running on a supported platform. See the Readme file available at https://docs.tibco.com for information about the supported operating system platforms, versions, and about required patches.


	Use the 32-bit installer for installing TIBCO Hawk only on the 32-bit systems. If you use the 32-bit installer to install TIBCO Hawk on the 64-bit systems, the system throws error when TIBCO Hawk components are started.

Microsoft Windows

Only user with Administrator privileges can install TIBCO Hawk components on Windows platform. If you intend to install the product on a network drive, ensure that the account used for installation has Administrator permission to access the network drive.

UNIX/Linux

Any type of user—regular (non-root) user and super-user (root)— can install TIBCO Hawk. It is recommended the same installer account to install all TIBCO products. A graphic environment such as CDE or X Windows is required to run the installer in GUI mode.

Hardware Requirements

TIBCO Hawk installation requires minimum of 512 MB system memory (RAM) and about 500 MB of free disk space. Please make sure you have adequate system memory and disk space before proceeding with TIBCO Hawk installation.

The Universal Installer requires disk space in the temporary directory before installation, and additional space in the temporary directory for running the installer. Please refer to the following table and ensure you have sufficient disk space available in the directory you want to use as the installation environment (TIBCO_HOME) directory.


Directory / Location	Disk Space Requirement
Temporary Directory before installation. For example, c:\temp or /tmp	Before you start the installation, you need this space to download installable archive file. For example, file with name TIB_hawk_5.2.0_win_x86_64.zip is the installable archive file. This file will need about 165 MB of disk space.
Temporary Directory during installation. For example, c:\temp\hawk510install or /tmp/hawk510install	This is the directory where you will unzip the installable zip so that you can later execute the Universal Installer. This directory requires about 175 MB of disk space. On Microsoft Windows, the default temporary directory location is %SystemDrive%:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Temp. If your system does not have sufficient free disk space in the default temporary directory, you can use the is:tempdir option when starting the installer to run the installer with a different temporary directory. For example: TIBCOUniversalInstaller -is:tempdir \new_tmp where \new_tmp has sufficient free disk space.
Installation Environment Directories	These directories are HAWK_HOME and CONFIG_FOLDER. Together they both need at least 360 MB of disk space.

Software Requirements

Refer to the following table for software requirements for a well-functioning TIBCO Hawk system. TIBCO Hawk installation includes some of the components, although they may be optional. Refer to the Readme file for details about the supported versions of various third-party software components.

Table 2 Software Requirement
Software	Optional?	Bundled with Installer?	Comments
TIBCO DataGrid	Yes	Yes, it is supplied with the installer.	TIBCO DataGrid is a peer-to-peer distributed in-memory data grid, a form of virtual shared memory that is replicated on distributed devices and applications. If you have already installed TIBCO DataGrid on the machine, you can clear the TIBCO DataGrid Runtime option in the Hawk Component during custom installation.
TIBCO Rendezvous	Yes	No, it is not supplied with TIBCO Hawk installer and needs a separate installation.	The TIBCO Rendezvous is the default transport between the Hawk Micro Agent and Hawk Agent and also between the Hawk Agent and Hawk Console applications. If you have already installed TIBCO Rendezvous software on a network-wide basis and you want to use it as a transport for TIBCO Hawk, you do not need additional TIBCO Rendezvous licenses unless you are running TIBCO Rendezvous Routing Daemon (RVRD) processes on a particular machine. In that case, you need a valid RVRD license in the tibrv.tkt file for that machine. TIBCO Rendezvous is used for inter-process communication even if TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) is chosen as the primary transport.
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service	Yes	No, it is not supplied with TIBCO Hawk installer and needs a separate installation.	If you plan to use TIBCO Enterprise Message Service as the primary messaging transport, at least one EMS server must be installed on the network and you must select to install the TIBCO EMS Java client during the TIBCO EMS installation on every machine running TIBCO Hawk Agent and TIBCO Hawk Console applications. Note: You have to manually copy the JAR files for the EMS client from EMS_HOME to each machine running Hawk Agent or Hawk Console applications when you are using TIBCO Enterprise Message Service version 6.3 or version 7.0 (which do not have client installation profile), and you do not want to install complete TIBCO Enterprise Message Service on each machine running Hawk Agent or Hawk Console applications. See step 5 in Web Server for Hawk WebConsole.
TIBCO Administrator	Yes	No, it is not supplied and needs a separate installation	TIBCO Administrator is a browser-based GUI for monitoring and managing deployed processes in the domain. The domain is a collection of machines and software components used for business process integration. In terms of physical process, every domain has an Administration Server that provides a data store for all the domain resource information as well as project data. The Administration Server consists of a repository server and two servlets running on Tomcat application server. The servlets are built using Hawk Console API to interact with TIBCO Runtime Agents running on every machine in the domain. There are additional Hawk plugins for Administrator, that you may need to copy from Hawk installation to Administrator installation before you use them from within Administrator UI.
TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA)	Yes	No, it is not supplied and needs a separate installation	If you plan to use any Hawk plug-ins, TIBCO Administrator and TIBCO Runtime Agent are required. TIBCO Runtime Agent is a Hawk Agent with a special Hawk MicroAgent is added to deploy, monitor, and manage TIBCO components like TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO BusinessEvents etc.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE)	No	Yes, it is supplied within Hawk Installation	TIBCO Hawk bundles Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8.0 with available patches, on the target machine. However user can choose NOT TO OPT for TIBCO Hawk supplied version of JRE and can use their version of JRE (new or previously installed on the same machine). In that case, users will need to edit / modify required “.tra” and “.cfg” file to reflect the accurate JRE location.
Tomcat Web Server	No	Yes, it is supplied within Hawk Installation	TIBCO Hawk bundles Tomcat 7.x. It is not a pre-requisite as during the installation process, it is installed on your machine. The Tomcat web server is necessary to host TIBCO Hawk WebConsole web application.
TIBCO Enterprise Administrator SDK	No	No, it is not supplied and needs a separate installation.	TIBCO Enterprise Administrator Agent for Hawk requires TIBCO Enterprise Administrator Server to be running. You must download and install TIBCO Enterprise Administrator SDK and start the server before running the Admin Agent. Your Web Browser must meet the requirements to run the TIBCO Enterprise Administrator server UI. Refer to the Readme file of TIBCO Enterprise Administrator for details