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January, 2010

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TIBCO iProcess engine installation on Solaris

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This is my quick reference for single-server TIBCO BPM iProcess engine installation on Solaris. Possible to add another server and convert environment to a cluster later. Oracle has to be installed, ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID environment variables must be set. Run swinstall installation script as a root user who also DBA in Oracle, script will create iProcess database.

./swinstall

Script will collect installation data:
Installing TIBCO iProcess Engine version 11.0.2

Location, Identification and OS Accounts Menu

* ) Installation Directory : /export/home/tibco/tibco/iprocess
2 ) iProcess Engine Nodename : s-bpm01
3 ) iProcess Engine Licensee Name : TIBCO iPE 11.0.2 Install
4 ) iProcess Engine Background User Name : pro
5 ) iProcess Engine Administration User Name : swadmin
6 ) iProcess Engine User Group Name : staffwar

ORACLE Database Connection and Account Details

1 ) Oracle DB TNS Identifier : orcl
2 ) Oracle DB Administrator Name : system
3 ) Oracle DB Administrator Password : ********
4 ) iProcess Engine DB Schema Owner Name : swpro
5 ) iProcess Engine DB Schema Owner Password : staffpro1
6 ) iProcess Engine DB User Name : swuser
7 ) iProcess Engine DB User Password : swuser1
8 ) Data Tablespace Name : STAFFWAR
9 ) Temporary Tablespace Name : TEMP
10) Schema Sizing Configuration : Small

Display configuration summary and start installation:
==============================================
Configuration Summary
==============================================

General
===============================================
Install type: install (MASTER)
Version: 11.0.2
Target location: /export/home/tibco/tibco/iprocess
Licensee: TIBCO iPE 11.0.2 Install

iProcess Objects Server Version: 11.0.2
iProcess Objects Director Version: 11.0.2

Node Details
===============================================
Node name: s-bpm01
Client-Server RPC port: 391875

Environment Settings
===============================================
iProcess Engine User group: staffwar
iProcess Engine bkg. account: pro
iProcess Engine admin. account: swadmin

Optional Settings
===============================================
Autostart Server: Y
Passwords required for login: Y
Enable Prediction (Global): N
Enable Case Data Normalization: Y
Enable Activity Publishing: N
Configure iProcess E-Mail Plug-in: Y
Enable iProcess Objects Server: Y
Enable iProcess Objects Director: N
Install TIBCO Hawk 4.8.1: N
Enable Webdav write access: N

DataBase Settings
===============================================
Database Type: ORACLE
TNS Identifier: orcl
DBA Name: system
DB Schema Owner: swpro
DB User: swuser
Data Tablespace: STAFFWAR
Temp Tablespace: TEMP

The final step:
Your TIBCO iProcess Engine installation has now been configured as follows:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Machine ID Machine Name Master Check Error Files Machine Comment
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 S-BPM01 Y Y s-bpm01

Checking and setting file permissions ...

TIBCO iProcess Engine Installation Complete

Display engine password:
TIBCO iProcess Engine Password is:
********************************************
* 3BFD-7292-DBAF-A3E7-823D-4720-351E *
********************************************
Licensee Name is:
TIBCO iPE 11.0.2 Install
(The existing TIBCO iProcess Engine Password and Licensee Name may also be
displayed later by running 'swconfig').

Reminder:
All users of TIBCO iProcess Engine (Staffware) should have the
environment variable $SWDIR set to
/export/home/tibco/tibco/iprocess
before invoking or starting TIBCO iProcess Engine.

Installer will run the final check and complete:
TIBCO iProcess Engine Nodename ( s-bpm01 ) checked OK.
TIBCO iProcess Engine RPC Number ( 391875 ) checked OK.
TIBCO iProcess Engine service ports checked OK
TIBCO iProcess Engine process entries OK

Then I have to create this .profile for pro user:
SWDIR=/export/home/tibco/tibco/iprocess
export SWDIR
ORACLE_HOME=/export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
ORACLE_SID=orcl
export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$SWDIR/libs
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

To start iProcess engine:
su - pro
cd bin
./swstart -p
./swstart

Admin tool:
su - pro
cd util
./swadm


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Are you a bluepill or a redpill?

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This post is a copy from c0t0d0s0.org blog. I like this joke :)

Disclaimer: As some readers didn’t get it … this article is a joke.

<joke>One of my readers pointed his finger to a really nice analogy: Are you a redpill or a bluepill. For the uninitiated: That is a scene from Matrix. Neo can choice take the blue pills to stay in the matrix, believing what he wants, or he can take the red pill to be free and to see the truth. Given that the Oracle logo is red and the IBM logo is blue, this gives a nice analogy.

You can take the blue pill. It’s the way of the matrix, it’s protected by agents from IBM Global Services, hiding you from the complexity of the reality, but sucking all your energy in the form of you IT budget from you. An agent can overwrite any of your coworkers. It downloads on the chair next to you, your colleagues are gone. They call this “Outsourcing”

On the other side: You can take the red pill. It’s the reality, sometimes problematic, sometimes pleasant. But you are free. You have your own will, you are not just in this world to feed the owners of matrix. And we show you how deeps the rabbit hole goes.

You have to decide: Do you take the blue pill or the red pill. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.</joke>


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The end of Sun as an independent entity

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Oracle Corporation announced yesterday that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Quote from this page:

This combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of database, middleware, and business applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.

Good or bad for IT industry? Will see. Now we can experience sun.com in red.


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How to reset TIBCO EMS Administrator password

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If the EMS admin password has been lost, it is easy to recover. In EMS all local users and their passwords stored in the users.conf file by default. You can find correct file in the tibemsd.conf:
users = "C:/tibco/tibco/cfgmgmt/ems/data/users.conf"

In the users.conf find admin user:
admin:$2$Z1t2XOwg$vsDsUT+GVRHRiX+OPU/oOsn0:"Administrator"
and remove encrypted password between colons:
admin::"Administrator"

Then restart EMS daemon. Connect to your EMS using EMS Administration Tool and login as admin without password:
> connect
Login name (admin):
Password:
Connected to: tcp://localhost:7222

Then set a new password for admin:
tcp://localhost:7222> set password admin 123
Password of user 'admin' has been modified

If you manage EMS in the TIBCO Administrator, then you need to change EMS admin password there. Start TIBCO DomainUtility, select “TIBCO EMS Plugin”, “Update TIBCO EMS Server”, press “Next”. Select domain and enter domain (not EMS!) admin user name and password. Select EMS server to update, and change EMS password there, test connection on the next screen and press “Next” to save new configuration.

So, EMS password recovery is very simple, isn’t it?


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NVIDIA DDS plugin for Photoshop CS4 64bit

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Yesterday my son asked for help to open dds files in Photoshop. After some googling, I found this NVIDIA plugin for Photoshop and some articles, which complained that it does not work with Photoshop CS4 64bit. To solve this problem it was necessary to understand two things: that when 64bit version of Photoshop was installed, 32bit version also was installed, and that NVIDIA DDS plugin put the dds.8bi file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\File Formats folder.

So, to open dds files in Photoshop:

  1. download and install this NVIDIA plugin for Photoshop;
  2. copy dds.8bi file from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\File Formats folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\File Formats folder;
  3. run 32bit Photoshop version from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\

Hope this helps someone.


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Problem with libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll

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You may experience this problem, when can’t run TIBCO Administrator, Hawk, BW process or any other TIBCO component. In log files you can find messages related to OpenSSL libraries libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll. The reason is that TIBCO messaging components use OpenSSL, but other applications may also use OpenSSL and have already installed these dlls in C:\WINDOWS\System32 or C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64 depending on the platform.

When you start the application, it unsuccessful attempts to find dll files near the binary, then tries to find in the System32 folder. But dlls from other version of OpenSSL are there. Your application will use it, instead correct version from TIBCO Rendezvous bin folder for example, even you have this folder in the PATH. TIBCO product can’t call the necessary functions, gives an error and stops working.

Solution is take libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll from TIBCO Rendezvous bin folder to the bin folders of every installed TIBCO component. Or just copy and replace to C:\WINDOWS\System32 or C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64.


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DreamHost Promo Code

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