TIBCO Administrator allows updates from events, rulebases or alerts to occur in real-time. Dialogs that use this feature include an auto refresh icon as shown in the next diagram. When auto refresh is enabled, the icon is active and displays movement across the horizontal bar.
Each time you click the auto refresh icon, auto refresh toggles between on and off.
You can set the amount of time that can expire before refreshing. See Profile Dialog on page 75 for details.
Auto refresh icon
New Application Domain Panel
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103New Application Domain Panel
See Working With Application Domains on page 91 for more information.
Domain Name
The name for the application domain.
Domain Type
Lists the storage type to use for the application domain, either Repo or Database. The domain type is determined by the storage type used by the administration domain.
JDBC Driver
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers enable an application to connect with a database. Select from the following drivers:
• tibcosoftwareinc.jdbc.oracle.OracleDriver
• tibcosoftwareinc.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
• weblogic.jdbc.mssqlserver4.Driver
Database DSN
The database DSN is required by the driver. It identifies which database is used for the session.
Database Username and Database Password
Enter the name and password required to connect to the database. The database user must have permission to:
• Create and drop tables, indexes and sequences.
• Insert, delete, and update tables.
Min Connections
When your application starts up, it initializes the number of connections to the database specified in this field. For optimal performance, this number should equal the number of subscribers you expect to connect to the database at any one time.
As you specify the minimum connections, keep in mind that these are per instance, and at startup, each instance will open its specified number of connections. Higher settings are better for application instances, but may have adverse results in the rest of the system. The correct setting is whatever the complete system can handle on a sustained basis without taxing other system resources.
Max Connections
The number of simultaneous connections cannot exceed the number set in this field. The database must be able to simultaneously handle the total maximum number of connections for all instances.
Be sure that you set Max Connections to a number greater than the number for Min Connections. Otherwise you will get an error message.
TIBCO recommends that you set Max Connection to a number equal or greater than the default value. TIBCO Administrator server needs a suitable amount of connections to initialize and to deal with domain data stored cross multiple tables in the domain. If the value of Max Connection is less than the default value, the operations may start up slowly and a timeout error may occur.
Table Prefix
The table prefix that is appended to each table used by the application. Can be no more than two characters.
Test Connection
Click this button to verify that the values you have provided result in a valid database connection.
Installed Software Dialog
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105Installed Software Dialog
Search
Allows you to display only the items that match a search criteria. You can use the * character as a wildcard.
Group By
Determines how the items in the display are grouped. Select from the following choices:
• None — Do not use grouping.
• Machine — List first all components on one machine, and then all components on the next machine in the administration domain.
• Software — Organize the display by first showing all components (service instances and process engines) then showing the machine.
• Enabled — Group by enabled and disabled components.
Export
Allows you to export inventory information for the selected item(s) to a .csv (comma-separated values) file, which can be opened with Microsoft Excel under Microsoft Windows and with other editors or spreadsheets on other platforms.
Enable, Disable
When a machine is part of an administration domain, all software from TIBCO becomes known to the corresponding administration server and visible in TIBCO Administrator updates occur automatically while TIBCO Hawk agent service is running on that machine.
If the TIBCO Hawk agent is stopped, it checks for TIBCO software on that machine when it is restarted, and updates the information the administration server has about the software in the domain.
When you disable software on a machine, that software on that machine is no longer available to applications. As a result, the software is not available in the deployment configuration dialog. For example, if you installed TIBCO BusinessWorks on two machines, you can disable the software on one machine to force any deployment to go to the other machine.
Enabling software is usually done after you have disabled it and is not necessary otherwise.
Add Custom Software
Allows you to add custom software to this administration domain. After selecting the machine on which the software is to be added and clicking OK, the following fields become available:
• Machine — Name of the machine to which the software is to be added. Click Change to add to a different machine.
• Software Type — Must match the software type used to build an enterprise archive file.
• Software Display Name — Named displayed in when monitoring the software.
• Version — A four-component number indicating the software version, for example 5.1.2.9. This number is then matched against enterprise archive files loaded for this software. If the enterprise archive file specifies a later version, it cannot be deployed.
• Executable (Full Path) — The full path to the executable for this custom software.
• Software is an adapter — Select this box if your custom software is an adapter, clear the box otherwise.
• Java Software — Select this box if your custom software is written in Java, clear the box otherwise.
• Java Start Class — Provide the Java start class.
• Java Start Method — Provide the Java start method.
• Java Stop Method — Provide the Java stop method.
• Java Classpath — Provide the Java classpath.
Remove Custom Software
Select the custom software package to remove from this list and click this button.
Software List
Installed Software Dialog
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107• Enabled — Displays enabled if this software has been enabled (the default), Disabled otherwise.