Preparing for Installation

This section describes the preparation for installing, and applies to both Service Gateway for ODBC and Service Gateway for Oracle.

Prerequisite Software

For supported software versions, see the readme file.

To run the installer, you must first install 32-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) from the Oracle Technology Network.


	Note that the JAVA_HOME environment variable must point to the directory that contains the 32-bit JRE installed from the Oracle Technology Network. For Linux installations, where an OpenJDK version of Java may have been installed as part of the operating system, you must configure JAVA_HOME to point to the correct JRE installation.

Installer Disk Space Requirements

Windows

The package is extracted into a temp folder, typically SystemDrive:\Temp or SystemDrive:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Local Settings\Temp. The installer requires 60MB of free space in the temp directory.

Unix

When a regular (non-root) user installs a TIBCO product, the installation registry is maintained in the user's home directory. As more products are installed, entries are added. The user's home directory must at least have 500 KB of free disk space.

Installer Account

Windows

You must have administrator privileges for the machine on which the Service Gateway is installed. If you do not have administrator privileges, the installer exits. You must then log out of the system and log in as a user with the required privileges, or request your system administrator to assign the privileges to your account.

If you intend to install the product on a network drive, you must ensure that the account used for installation has permission to access the network drive.

When installing on Windows terminal server, there are two modes: Execute and Install. By default all users are logged on in Execute mode, which allows them to run the applications. When you want to install the Service Gateway for use by everyone, the Administrator should change to Install mode.

The best way to install the Service Gateway is to use the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet, because this automatically sets the mode to Install during the installation and then back to Execute at the end. Alternatively, you can manually change your mode to Install by typing:

C:\> change user /install

Change back to execute:

C:\> change user /execute

Check your current mode:

C:\> change user /query

If you install in the Execute mode, the installation registry is maintained in your user home directory. If you install in the Install mode, the installation registry is maintained in the %SystemRoot% folder.


	You must invoke the installer from a TIBCO Object Service Broker-enabled CMD prompt or from a CMD shortcut created by the base installer, in which the TIBCO Object Service Broker environment has already been set.

Unix

The Service Gateway can be installed by a regular (non-root) user and super-user (root). Different users can install the same product at different locations.