Preparing for installation

In this section you will prepare your environment by installing and configuring all software prerequisites.

Preparing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™

nJAMS Client for BW requires TIBCO BusinessWorks to be installed. For installing TIBCO BusinessWorks please follow the instructions of the installation manual that comes with TIBCO BusinessWorks.

Preparing TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™

If you want to use the JMS Data Provider of nJAMS Client for BW, TIBCO EMS has to be up and running and available on your network/subnet, where you want to use TIBCO BusinessWorks. nJAMS Client for BW uses three destinations on your TIBCO EMS Server in order to communicate with an nJAMS Server Instance. These destinations must correspond to the Data Provider settings of your nJAMS Server Instance.

You need the following information about your TIBCO EMS Server:

  • IP-Address / Servername, Port Number
  • Account (Username, Password)
  • Permissions send, receive on queues <prefix>.event, <prefix>.error
  • Permissions publish, subscribe on topic <prefix>.commands

Tip

It is recommended to add an expiration time of e.g. 5 seconds to the <prefix>.commands destination.

If you plan to use JNDI for looking up connection factories, the following information is required also:

  • IP-Address / Servername, Port Number of JNDI server
  • JNDI Account (Username, Password)
  • Name of ConnectionFactory (e.q. QueueConnectionFactory)

Preparing network security

If you want to use the Cloud Data Provider of nJAMS Client for BW, your network must allow HTTPS for external communication. nJAMS Client for BW uses secure HTTPS transport based on certificates to communicate with your nJAMS Cloud Instance.

Preparing nJAMS Server®

nJAMS Client for BW requires a running nJAMS Instance, either on-premise (nJAMS Server), oder in the cloud (nJAMS Cloud). However, the nJAMS Instance is not required during installation of nJAMS Client for BW, but at the latest before the first use of nJAMS Client for BW.