Hardware Requirements

TIBCO Hawk installation requires minimum of 512 MB system memory (RAM) and about 500 MB of free disk space. 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. 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_<version>_win_x86_64.zip is the installable archive file. This file needs about 290 MB of disk space.

Temporary Directory during installation.

For example, c:\temp\hawk<version>install or /tmp/hawk<version>install

This is the directory where you extract the installable zip so that you can later execute the Universal Installer.

This directory requires about 290 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 480 MB of disk space.