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Chapter 1 Introduction : Installation Requirements

Installation Requirements
This section describes the disk space requirements, system memory requirements, software requirements, and supported platforms for this product.
Disk Space Requirements
Before installing this product, extract the contents of the installation archive to a temporary directory. The installer files consume up to 1.5 GB of disk space.
Temporary Disk Space Required by the Installer
The installer requires at least 2 GB of free space in the temporary directory. On Microsoft Windows, the temporary directory typically is:
%SystemDrive%:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Temp.
If your system does not have sufficient disk space in the default temporary area, you can run the installer with a different temporary directory by using the following option when starting the installer:
-is:tempdir /new_temp
where /new_temp has sufficient free disk space.
The installer calculates the disk space required in the product home location for the selected components. The calculation is done before the actual installation (copying of files to the system) begins. The installer will proceed only if sufficient free disk space is available in the product home location.
However, if disk space is consumed by another process while the installer is copying the files, and if the required disk space is thereby reduced, the installer may fail and will then give a failure message.
While performing installation, avoid running other processes that consume disk space in the product home location.
Disk Space After Installation
This product can consume 2 GB of free space under SFAX_HOME.
System Memory Requirements
A minimum of 2 GB of physical memory is required.
Supported Platforms
Refer to the ReadMe file for the supported platforms, versions, and required patches.
Required and Optional Products
Table 2 lists the required and optional software products.
TIBCO Silver® Fabric
Required. To use TIBCO Silver® Fabric Enabler for TIBCO® API Gateway Exchange, you must install TIBCO Silver Fabric and its latest patch.
Required for messaging between API Exchange Gateway Engines and components. The TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) distribution is packaged with:
TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway Distribution for TIBCO® Silver Fabric.
Optional for messaging between API Exchange Gateway Engines and components.
Grid Libraries
Installation of the TIBCO Silver® Fabric Enabler for TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway consists of copying artifacts named Grid Libraries to the following TIBCO Silver Fabric broker directory:
SILVERFABRIC_HOME/webapps/livecluster/deploy/resources/gridlib/
For example, on a Linux platform, the default directory is:
/opt/tibco/fabric/webapps/livecluster/deploy/resources/gridlib/
The Grid Libraries can be divided into two groups:
Enablers
Enablers are made for use with TIBCO Silver Fabric and the Enablers for this product are made to configure and control how TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway will be deployed to a Silver Fabric Engine. Enablers are configured using the TIBCO Silver Fabric Administration Tool interface to specify settings, installation, configuration, and deployment logic for TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway running on TIBCO Silver® Fabric.
TIBCO Silver Fabric uses the following TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for TIBCO API Exchange Gateway zip files:
Distributions
Distributions are compressed native products that are obtained separately from the Enablers. Distributions must be downloaded separately from the specific product area of the download site. The TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway Distribution is in the TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway area of the TIBCO product download site.
Put Distributions, grid libraries, into the same Silver Fabric directory as the Enablers. Distributions are deployed to the Silver Fabric Engines according to the configurations set using the Enablers.
The TIBCO® API Gateway Exchange Distribution is used to deploy and run TIBCO® API Gateway Exchange on the Silver Fabric Engine. Different distributions are provided for different platforms.
For each platform, the distribution for TIBCO Silver® Fabric Enabler for TIBCO® API Exchange Gateway includes the following five distributions:
TIBCO Rendezvous® distribution
Table 3 shows distributions provided for a Linux (x86-64) platform.
TIBCO API Exchange Gateway distribution
This file can be found within the zipped archive of SilverFabric_tra_common_linux64_rollup_02-01-2013.zip.
You can get this file from the TIBCO product download site from within the TIBCO BusinessEvents Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric Software 5.1.1 page.

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