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.
Software |
Optional? |
Bundled with Installer? |
Comments |
Java Development Kit |
No |
Yes, it is supplied within Hawk Installation |
TIBCO Hawk bundles JDK 11. You can choose to use the JDK version bundled with the Hawk installation. Alternatively, you can use your own version of JDK (new or previously installed on the same machine). In this case, you must edit the required “.tra” and “.cfg” file to reflect the accurate location. |
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 TIBCO Rendezvous is used for inter-process communication even if TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) is chosen as the primary transport. TIBCO Rendezvous is used for communication between Hawk Agent and Hawk Microagent (HMA) even if TCP Transport for TIBCO Hawk 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 must install TIBCO Rendezvous to use TIBCO EMS transport.
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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 plug-ins 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, and so on. |
Yes |
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. |
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Eclipse LGPL Software Assembly |
Required on Linux and Solaris |
No |
If the Eclipse LGPL software assembly ( Save the downloaded assembly in a temporary directory accessible to the machine on which you plan to run the installer. During installation, provide the location of the temporary directory where the downloaded software assembly is available. If the machine is connected to the Internet, you can download the Eclipse LGPL software assembly file for your target platform from the TIBCO Software Product Download Site during installation. The |
Sunec LGPL Software Assembly |
Yes |
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The software requires the Sunec LGPL library (Oracle Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Library) only if you want to use the ECC ciphers with SSL/TLS configurations. Without the ECC library, the SSL/TLS functionality is still available, but without ECC ciphers. If the Sunec LGPL software assembly ( If the machine is connected to the Internet, you can download the Eclipse LGPL software assembly file for your target platform from the TIBCO Software Product Download Site during installation. The |