Installation Requirements

Before you run the installation, ensure that your system meets all the necessary hardware and software requirements, and that you have the appropriate privileges to install TIBCO® Managed File Transfer Internet Server .

Installation Account

On Windows, if TIBCO Managed File Transfer (MFT) Internet Server is to be installed as a Windows service, you must be an administrator. Otherwise, no special privileges are required.

On UNIX, we strongly suggest that TIBCO MFT Internet Server should be installed under a non-root user.

System Requirement

For information about the hardware and software requirements, as well as supported platforms, see the readme.txt file.

Network

As with any enterprise application, changes may need to be made to firewall and other security systems in a production environment. The following table list default ports for services required and used within TIBCO MFT Internet Server.
Supported Database Default Port
MS SQL Server 1433
Oracle 2484(SSL)/1521/1522
MySQL 3306
IBM DB2 50000
PostGre SQL DB 5432
Note: These are the default ports. You need to check with the system administrator to ensure that these ports are used in your enterprise.

Either the HTTP or HTTPS protocol can be used for soap calls. By default, TIBCO MFT Internet Server uses ports 7080 and 7443 for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols respectively. These default values can be changed during the installation process.

For example, if you define ports 7443 for the HTTPS protocol and 7080 for the HTTP protocol, you can run the following iptables commands to reroute requests for ports 443 and 80 to ports 7443 and 7080.
Note: When using the iptables command to reroute requests from ports below 1025, the iptables command must be executed by a root user. 
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 7443
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 7080

In addition to the port numbers above, the iptables command may need to also redirect SSH, FTPS, and FTP ports as well.