Installation guide

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Installation and Configuration

Installation Overview

Installer Account

Microsoft Windows

You must have administrator privileges for the machine on which this product is

installed. If you do not have administrator privileges, the installer exits. You must

then log out of the system and log in as a user with the required privileges, or

request your system administrator to assign the privileges to your account.

If you intend to install the product on a network drive, ensure that the account

used for installation has permission to access the network drive.

UNIX

Any type of user—regular (non-root) user and super-user (root)—can install this

product. While installing this product on UNIX platforms, ensure that the same

installer account is used to install all TIBCO ActiveMatrix products.

A graphic environment such as CDE or X Windows is required to run the installer

in GUI mode.

Installer Log File

The installer log file, tibco_universal_installer.username_install.log, is

written to the

.TIBCO/install_timestamp folder of the user’s home directory. To

change the location of the installer log file, specify the option

-V

logFile="myLogFile" when you run the installer.

The installer log file captures the following information:

TIBCO Host TIBCO Host is the runtime object that serves as the

point of contact between TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM

nodes and Administrator server. TIBCO Host has a

staging area that contains product and custom features

available to the nodes it manages. It performs

operations such as software distribution, node creation,

node life cycling, and application deployment.

TIBCO

ActiveMatrix BPM

Documentation

Installs the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM documentation in

TIBCO_HOME\amx-bpm\version\doc\ where version is

the release version of the product.

Feature Description