TIBCO Administrator Temporary Files

TIBCO Administrator use the temporary folder (usually /tmp on Unix machine) to save configuration data, which might be required during re-deployment or roll-back of a deployed application.

 If files from the temporary folder are tampered, then TIBCO Administrator will fail to re-deploy applications. This can happen if for example, the machine is rebooted, which deletes all files from the temporary folder.

The work-around to avoid this issue is to have TIBCO Administrator use another folder to store its temporary data. This must be done after the domain and the primary TIBCO Administrator Server has been created:

Complete the following activities on the machine that will run the Admin.

1. Connect as login  to the machine.
2. Stop TIBCO Administrator Server if it is already running:
3. Open the file “/opt/tibco/administrator/5.2/bin/tibcoadmin_<DOMAIN>.tra” with vi. If the version of TIBCO Administrator is 5.3, the file is “/opt/tibco/administrator/domain/<DOMAIN>/bin/tibcoadmin_<DOMAIN>.tra”.
4. Add the following text at the end of the file (if not present):

# redirect temp to /opt/tibco/tra/domain/<DOMAIN/tmp

java.property.java.io.tmpdir=/opt/tibco/tra/domain/<DOMAIN>/tmp

###############################################################################

###  END OF FILE  #############################################################

###############################################################################

5. Create the folder “/opt/tibco/tra/domain/<DOMAIN>/tmp”.
6. Restart TIBCO Administrator.