Location of Configuration Files


The installation process places configuration files in two directories:

When selecting a production configuration directory, we recommend using a file system with regular backup commensurate with your need for reliability and disaster recovery. It is essential that the EMS server have both read and write privileges in the configuration directory.

The EMS server reads configuration files only once, when the server starts. It ignores subsequent changes to the configuration files.
You can also change the server configuration with administrative requests, using either tibemsadmin (a command line tool), the Java or .NET administrative APIs, or TIBCO Administrator™ (a separate TIBCO product).
When the server validates and accepts and administrative request, it writes the change to the appropriate configuration file as well (overwriting any manual changes to that file). This policy keeps configuration files current in case the server restarts (for example, in a fault-tolerant situation, or after a hardware failure).
Re-installing or updating EMS overwrites the files in the bin/ and samples/config/ directories. Do not use these directories to configure your deployment.


TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ User’s Guide
Software Release 4.3, February 2006
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