Installing TIBCO Software Onto a Shared Drive

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Chapter 2 Installing the Software Into a Cluster : Installing TIBCO Software Onto a Shared Drive

Installing TIBCO Software Onto a Shared Drive

You can install your TIBCO software on a shared drive, although it is not recommended. You only need to install the software on the first node, and copy-and-rename the installation registry file to the subsequent nodes.

To do so, follow the instructions below:

1.

Map a network drive on the first node. Make sure that the same drive letter can be used on all the subsequent nodes.

2.

Install all your TIBCO software on the first node.

3.

For every subsequent node, map a network drive with the same drive letter assignment and network path reference as the one you mapped for the first node. For example, if you used X: as the drive letter and //sample-fileserver/tibco-cluster/ as the network path for the drive, then you must do the same on all subsequent nodes.

4.

Copy the TIBCO installation registry file (vpd.properties.tibco.hostname) from the first node to the %SystemRoot% directory in all the subsequent nodes and rename the hostname accordingly.

For Windows machines, the %SystemRoot% directory is C:\Windows. See TIBCO Runtime Agent Installation for more information on the TIBCO installation registry files.

If you wish to install additional TIBCO software in the cluster (TIBCO BusinessWorks, for example), you must install it on the first node and copy-and-rename the installation registry file to the other nodes again.

Example

In the example cluster given in this chapter, do the following to install TIBCO Runtime Agent and TIBCO Administrator on a shared drive:

1.

On PS-W2K3-CL1, map a network drive to //PS-W2K3-CLSHARE/D and assign it the letter X.

2.

Install TIBCO Runtime Agent and TIBCO Administrator on PS-W2K3-CL1 in the X:\tibco directory. See TIBCO Runtime Agent Installation and TIBCO Administrator Installation for detailed instructions.

3.

On PS-W2K3-CL1, copy the file C:\Windows\vpd.properties.tibco.ps-w2k3-cl1.

4.

Paste the copied file into C:\Windows on PS-W2K3-CL2 and rename it to vpd.properties.tibco.ps-w2k3-cl2.