Overview

TIBCO Administrator allows administrators and end users to manage authentication and security, configure and deploy applications, manage and monitor deployments, and view information about running processes and machines in an administration domain. The following modules are provided in the TIBCO Administrator GUI to manage users, resources and applications:

• User Management
• Resource Management
• Application Management

User Management

This module allows you to create users and roles and assign them access rights to resources available in the administration domain.

An administration domain can be integrated with an LDAP directory server where users and groups are defined in an LDAP directory and imported into TIBCO Administrator.

• Users—You can create users and assign them into roles, which allow easier administration. You can also set read, write or administer permissions so a user can directly access TIBCO Administrator modules and consoles, and domain and application repositories.
• Roles—Access control is easier when roles are used. You can assign multiple users into roles and then assign permissions for the role.
• Security—Each resource in an administration domain can have users or roles assigned to it. The security level setting determines who can access the resource and at what access level.

Resource Management

This module allows you to create application domains, get information about installed TIBCO software on each domain machine, view the status of each domain machine, and configure monitoring rules and events that can trigger other actions such as sending email or running a command.

• Application Domains—If your TIBCO application supports this feature, you can create multiple application domains and assign applications to them. An application domain allows you to specify that application data be written to a repository that is separate from the repository used by the administration domain. This is useful, for example, if an application needs to use a local database rather than that used by the administration domain.
• Installed Software—You can view TIBCO applications that are running on each machine in the domain and enable or disable applications.
• Machines—Each administration domain contains one or more machines. You add a machine to an administration domain using the TIBCO Domain Utility.

Application Management

This module allows you to upload an application’s Enterprise Archive (EAR) file and optionally change runtime options and global variables that were set for the application when it was configured. You can also define monitoring rules for each application. You then deploy the application and start (or stop) it.

The next diagram shows the TIBCO Administrator GUI with the application management module displaying its contained consoles. An application is selected and the configuration builder in the right panel displays the application, its service and service instance.

• Clicking an application name allows you to change global variable values set for the application when it was configured in TIBCO Designer. You can also specify the transport the client application will use when communicating with the administration server. Alternatively, you can specify that the application’s repository be sent to the target machine, which allows the application to run independently of the administration server.
• Clicking the service name allows you to set monitoring options and other runtime properties.
• Clicking the service instance name allows you to set logging options, whether to run as the instance as a service on Microsoft Windows, and shutdown options.

Features Centralized web-based Admin Extensive process logging and tracing Drill down capabilities Remote system management Rule-based self-healing agents Distributed architecture

Advantages Lights out management No-single point-of-failure On-the-fly troubleshooting