Installation Environment

An installation environment is the root installation folder for TIBCO products. An installation environment isolates product installations. A product installed into an installation environment does not access components in other installation environments.

The root folder in which TIBCO products are installed is referred to as TIBCO_HOME. The recommended value is C:\tibco\. Within TIBCO_HOME, TIBCO MFT Platform Server for Windows is installed in the MFT Platform Server folder. The default value is C:\tibco\MFT Platform Server.

You can provide any other path and folder name for TIBCO_HOME during the installation. The path is referred to as the environment location for TIBCO_HOME, and the folder name is referred to as the environment name for TIBCO_HOME. You can see the installation environment details, such as environment name and environment location, in the Pre-Install Summary and Post-Install Summary pages of TIBCO Universal Installer when you are installing the product.

Two options are available in TIBCO Universal Installer for the installation environment (TIBCO_HOME):
  • Create a new TIBCO_HOME: Installs the product in a new environment.
  • Use an existing TIBCO_HOME: Installs the product in an existing environment. When migrating from a previous version of the product, select this option.