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Chapter 2 Installing the Software Into a Cluster : Overview

Overview
TIBCO Runtime Agent, TIBCO Administrator, and the applications it manages need not be modified to run in a cluster environment. You can install the software on a cluster group node’s local drive, the cluster group’s shared drive, or a mapped or mounted network drive. The following points apply to each installation:
See the TIBCO Runtime Agent Release Notes for known issues about clusters that affect TIBCO applications.
A primary administration server that is configured in a cluster environment typically does not have a secondary server configured because the cluster provides a backup. However, you can configure one or multiple secondary servers when the primary server is under cluster software control. The secondary servers are not required to be configured on a standby node in the cluster.
When monitoring applications in warm-standby mode under the control of cluster software, applications are deployed to a virtual machine and not to physical machines. At any point of time, the deployed application can only be running on one node in the cluster. The TIBCO Hawk service and the applications it monitors must belong to the same cluster resource group.
Before you use TIBCO Domain Utility to configure the administration domain, you should decide how many cluster groups your domain will be divided among and form the cluster groups.
It is recommended that TIBCO Runtime Agent, TIBCO Administrator and other TIBCO applications be installed on each cluster node's local disk, and not on the cluster group’s shared disk. Installing TIBCO products on a local disk rather than a cluster group’s shared disk enables rolling upgrades, and allows TIBCO products to be placed in multiple cluster groups.
Example Installation Diagram
This section explains how to install TIBCO products in a cluster environment. This example uses Microsoft Cluster Server software.
Figure 6 shows the cluster that is used in this installation example. The virtual cluster name is PS-W2K3-CLG2. The cluster has two nodes, PS-W2K3-CL1 and PS-W2K3-CL2.
Figure 6 Example Installation Cluster
TIBCO applications will be installed on each node’s local drive, and then registered with the cluster software. Additionally an administration domain will be created on the shared drive.
PS-W2K3-CL1 Node
The following will be done on this node:
PS-W2K3-CL2 Node
The following will be done on this node:

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