Installing

You can install MainView Middleware Administrator (MVMA) on a Windows or Linux operating system.

Installing MVMA is a straightforward procedure that assumes that you have purchased the product and received a product key. 

For Windows platforms, you can install MVMA via a wizard.
For Linux platforms, you can install MVMA via a wizard or console. 

Installing MVMAincludes the implementation of a default security model (the ADMIN_ADMIN model) with the application. The security model implements authentication and authorization security functionality. It is supplied with the product and is fully operational from your first access to the application. To learn more about security, refer to Security-policy-settings.


Related topics

Planning

Operating-environments

Using


Important


  • Evaluate MVMA licensing needs based on the current number of IBM MQ queue managers and/or TIBCO EMS servers.
  • MVMA supports only 64-bit Windows or Linux operating systems.
  • MVMAas of version 9.2.00 no longer includes the installation of MongoDB, but still requires its availability as its backend database. Therefore it is required to download, install and setup MongoDB prior to installing MVMA.
  • MongoDB by default installs with authentication turned off. In the default configuration, this enables unauthorized access to the MVMA database from (only) the same host but not from any other host in the network. Be aware that a consequence of configuring high availability replication (see Configuring-high-availability-replication) would be enabling network access to the MVMA database. To protect MongoDB from unauthorized access you need to enable authentication within the MongoDB configuration. For configuring MongoDB security and for enabling authentication for database access, refer to the MongoDB product documentation (see Security on Self-Managed Deployments in MongoDB Manual). 
  • MongoDB by default installs with its default logging settings, which may cause MongoDB to add diagnostic log entries referring to data records maintained within MongoDB. To meet any related security concerns, MongoDB logging can be configured to be run in a quiet mode from within the MongoDB configuration file in etc/data.conf; note that MongoDB explicitly does not recommend this for production as it may make tracking problems during particular connections more difficult. Refer to the MongoDB product documentation for more details on this topic.

The topics in this section apply to all customer sites and configurations. If you have special site requirements or preferences, please create a Support case at at BMC Support Central:

 

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