TIBCO Administrator 5.6 Installation on Windows XP

This short article describe the installation sequence of TIBCO softwares required before TIBCO Administrator and be installed and deployed. The target host is a Windos XP machine located in the following infrastructure.

Refer to this article for a complete description of the infrastructure.

The administrator node will be used to manage other TIBCO softwares such as TIBCO Businessworks on another machines.

TIBCO Administrator 5.6.0 requires the following softwares to be installed on the target host.

TIBCO Runtime Agents (TRA) 5.6.0
- TIBCO Rendezvous 8.1.1
- TIBCO Hawk 4.8.1
- JRE 1.5.0
- TPCL 5.6.0

Install TRA from the package TIB_tra-suite_5.6.0_win_x86_32.exe

The installation is straight forward. Double click the package from the windows Explorer and follow the instructions. Accept the default installation locations.

After the installation of TRA 5.6.0, you could apply additional patch if required. Patch 5.6.2 is available for TRA in the package TIB_tra-suite_5.6.2_win_x86.exe. The patch will install the following updated components

- TIBCO Rendezvous 8.2.1
- TPCL 5.6.2
- TRA 5.6.2
- JRE 1.6.0

After the patch, install TIBCO Administrator 5.6.0 from the package TIB_tibcoadmin-epe-simple_5.6.0_win_x86_32.exe.

Oracle XE user for TIBCO Admin Domain repository

If you elect to use TIBCO EMS as the transport of the administration domain, you need to use database as the domain repository. If you plan to use Oracle XE Universal as the database, you might be looking for the reference on what privilege to grant to the user of the schema for the TIBCO Administrator Domain. The following information might help.

Assuming the user you want to create is called "tibpg", run the following sql commands to create the user and grant the privileges. You should be able to specify and use this user in the DomainUtility to create your domain without problem.

GRANT CONNECT,RESOURCE,UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO tibpg IDENTIFIED BY tibpg

ALTER USER tibpg DEFAULT TABLESPACE USERS;

ALTER USER tibpg TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP;

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