Quick Reference: From Installing TIBCO Activation Service to Uploading a License

Prerequisites

  • A supported Linux distribution (RHEL or Ubuntu)
  • Root or sudo access

Download and Extract the Installer

  1. Download the TIBCO Activation Service installer from the TIBCO Software Downloads site. The file name of the installer is similar to TIB_tibco-activation_1.0.0_linux_x86_64.zip.

  2. Upload the installer file to your target server.

  3. Extract the installer file:
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    unzip -d TIB_tibco-activation_1.0.0_linux_x86_64 TIB_tibco-activation_1.0.0_linux_x86_64.zip

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    cd TIB_tibco-activation_1.0.0_linux_x86_64/TIB_tibco-activation_1.0.0/

Install using RPM (RHEL)

  1. Navigate to the rpm directory:

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    cd rpm
  2. Install TIBCO Activation Service: 

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    sudo yum -y install tibco-activation_1.0.0_x86_64-server.rpm

  3. Install Activation Client:

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    sudo yum -y install tibco-activation_1.0.0_x86_64-util.rpm

Install using DEB (Ubuntu)

  1. Navigate to the deb directory:

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    cd deb

  2. Install TIBCO Activation Service:

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    sudo apt-get -y install ./tibco-activation_1.0.0_x86_64-server.deb

  3. Install Activation Client:

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    sudo apt-get -y install ./tibco-activation_1.0.0_x86_64-util.deb

Initialize TIBCO Activation Service

  1. Retrieve the full Activation Service URL (with fingerprint) from the installation:

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    cat /usr/libexec/tib-lm/README.txt

    Note the Activation Service URL (host and port). This URL will be used in product activation during installations and startups.

  2. Set the admin password by running: 

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    tib-activate password

  3. Provide the full URL from step 1 when prompted and set the admin password.
  4. Note the generated code.

Generate License for Device

  1. Access the License & Delivery Portal from https://www.tibco.com/accounts/my-account/download-history. Click TIBCO Licenses.

  2. Click Devices > Create Device and provide the token generated in the previous step.

  3. Click Action> Map Entitlements to map entitlements for the device.

  4. Click Action > Download Capability Response to download the Capability Response (license) for the device.

  5. Upload the license file to your target server.

Upload License to TIBCO Activation Service

  1. Log in to TIBCO Activation Service (if signed out):

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    tib-activate login

  2. Upload license to TIBCO Activation Service:

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    tib-activate license upload <path to license file>

  3. List licenses to verify that the license has been uploaded correctly:

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    tib-activate license list

Debugging

Task Command
Start TIBCO Activation Service if not running.

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sudo systemctl start flexnetls-osp
Check status of TIBCO Activation Service.

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sudo systemctl status flexnetls-osp
Check TIBCO Activation Service log.

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tail -f /var/log/tibco/tib-lm/flexnetls.log
Location of TIBCO Activation Service installation

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/usr/libexec/tib-lm/server
Location of TIBCO Activation Service log

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/var/log/tibco/tib-lm
Stop TIBCO Activation Service

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sudo systemctl stop flexnetls-osp
View configured server information and session profile

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cat ~/.tib-activate.server-info
cat ~/.tib-activate.profile