Grid Libraries

The Grid Libraries can be divided into two groups: Enablers and Distributions.

The TIBCO® Silver Fabric Enabler for Adapter forr SFFL installation 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 directory is:

/opt/tibco/fabric/webapps/livecluster/deploy/resources/gridlib/

The Grid Libraries can be divided into two groups:

  • Enablers
  • Distributions

Enablers

Enablers are made for use with TIBCO Silver Fabric and the enablers for this product are made to configure and control how TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for is published to a Silver Fabric engine. Enablers are configured using the TIBCO Silver Fabric Administration Tool interface to specify settings, installation, configuration, and publishing logic for TIBCO® Silver Fabric Enabler for Adapter for .

Note: Enablers are supported wherever TIBCO Silver Fabric is installed. Enablers are not operating system dependent. The Silver Fabric broker detects the addition of any Grid Library container put in the proper directory.

The following Enabler files are installed into the /3.0/gridlib directory, they must be copied to the TIBCO Silver Fabric gridlib directory.:

Distributions

Distributions are compressed native products that are obtained from a different part of the TIBCO download site than the Enablers for TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler. Distributions must be downloaded from the parent product area of the download site.

Distribution grid libraries are put into the same Silver Fabric directory as the Enablers. Distributions are published to the Silver Fabric engines according to the configurations set using the enablers.

Note: Distributions are dependent on platforms. Different platforms have different distributions.
For each platform, the Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric includes the following distributions:
  • TIBCO Rendezvous® distribution
  • TIBCO Hawk® distribution
  • TIBCO Runtime Agent™ distribution
Software Distributions for Linux (x86) platform
Distribution Distribution File
TIBCO Rendezvous distribution TIB_SilverFabric_rv_8.4.4_0_linux_x86_distribution_gridlib.zip
TIBCO Hawk distribution TIB_SilverFabric_hawk_5.2.0_0_linux26gl23_x86_distribution_gridlib.zip
TIBCO Runtime Agent distribution TIB_SilverFabric_tra_5.10.0_1_linux_x86_distribution_gridlib.zip
Note: If you want to run the same TIBCO Silver® Fabric Cloud with all supported platforms, you must copy all the distributions to the TIBCO Silver® Fabric Cloud.