TIBCO Administrator Training - March 23rd, 2006

Prepared By: Kishore Tanikella, Pramod B - TCS

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 Installer Overview

Two versions of TIBCO Administrator are available

Repository Edition and

Enterprise Edition.

Enterprise Edition provides all TIBCO Administrator features.

Repository Edition provides a subset of the features.

Major features are:

• User Management.
• Resource Management.
• Application Management.

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Repository & Enterprise Edition Feature Comparison

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 Using TIBCO Installer

• GUI
• Silent (Console)

GUI mode presents panels that allow you to make choices about product
selection, product location, and so on.

Console mode allows you to run the installer from the command line. Silent
mode installs without prompting you for information.

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 What is TIBCO Administrator?
TIBCO Administrator allows you to upload, deploy and monitor TIBCO
applications on machines that belong to an administration domain. TIBCO
Administrator provides the following modules to manage users, resources and
applications:
• User Management. This module allows you to create users and roles, and
assign them access rights to TIBCO Administrator consoles, applications and
application repositories.
• Resource Management. This module allows you to manage TIBCO software
installed on other machines in the domain and monitor machines in the domain.
• Application Management. This module allows you to upload, deploy and
monitor applications. You can also start and stop application service instances
or process engines.

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Architecture Overview

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 Architecture Overview Contd…
1. Tomcat web server—Manages basic communications and makes TIBCO Administrator
available.
2. Administration server—Manages domain and application repositories.
3. User Management—Manages access rights for user and roles to TIBCO Administrator
modules and repositories.
4. Resource Management—Allows you to view the status of all machines in an
administration domain
5. Application Management—Allows you to deploy and monitor applications.

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 TIBCO Administration Domain
An administration domain is a collection of users, machines, and services.

The administration domain is managed by a administration server, which is assisted

by a TIBCO Hawk Agent running on each machine in the administration domain.

A TIBCO administration domain consists of these elements:

 Administration server
 Machines
 User and Access Information
 Application Configuration
 Runtime Application
 TIBCO Hawk Agent

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 Utilities and Plug-ins

TIBCO Administrator includes several utilities and plug-ins

 TIBCO Domain Utility

 Scripting Deployment Utility
 Command Line Utilities
 TIBCO Enterprise Message Service Plug-in
 TIBCO Business Works Manual Work Plug-in

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TIBCO Domain Utility

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TIBCO Domain Utility Contd…

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 User Management Overview

• Managing Access Rights

• Searching in TIBCO Administrator
• Adding Users
• Assigning/Removing Role Membership to Users
• Assigning Permissions to Users
• Changing Passwords
• Renaming/Deleting Users
• Changing Domain Administration User Credentials
• Creating a Role
• Adding or Removing a User from a Role
• Removing a Child Role from a Parent Role
• Assigning Permissions to Roles
• Users Dialog / New User Dialog
• Roles Dialog / New Role Dialog
• Profile Dialog
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 Resource Management Overview

• Customizing the Installed Software Display

• Customizing the Machines Display
• Disabling and Enabling Installed Software
• Adding Custom Software
• Configuring Monitoring for a Machine
• Removing a Machine from a Domain
• Turning Auto Refresh On or Off
• Installed Software Dialog
• Machines Dialog
• View Machine Dialog
• Add Event Dialog

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 Application Management Overview
• Managing Folders
• Creating an Application
• Deleting an Application
• Deploying an Application
• Reverting to a Previously Deployed Application
• Undeploying a Deployed Application
• Moving an Application to a Folder
• Viewing Application Deployment History
• Upgrading an Application
• Application Management Dialog
• All Applications Dialog
• New Application Configuration Dialog
• Deploy Dialog
• View History Dialog

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 Administration Server - Architecture Overview

BusinessWorks Manage
Adapter Client
Client

Monitor
<Adapter>.tra <bw>.tra

Administration
Server
TIBCO Hawk
Agent

tibcoadmin_<domain>.tra

Corporate
LDAP
Application Repositories Domain Repositories
Users and Groups
(Files or Database) (Files or Database)

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Thanks

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