You can reduce the performance impact of running antivirus software on computers that run TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.x / BusinessWorks Container Edition 2.x applications by excluding certain files from the system checks.

For performance reasons, the following are best practices for using antivirus software on these machines:

    •    Do not run full system scans during business hours because the I/O operations affect system performance.
    •    Exclude certain files from system scans, as indicated in the sections below.

Tips for running antivirus software on machine hosting TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.x / BusinessWorks Container Edition applications

List of files / folders to be excluded:

Design time (Applicable to both BusinessWorks 6.x and BusinessWorks Container Edition) :
    •    Executable file  - .exe in Windows, no extension in other operating systems (This is to open TIBCO BusinessStudio for BusinessWorks).
    •    .ini file

Runtime:

1. TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.x:
    •    <BW_HOME>/bw/6.x/domains/<Domain_Name>/appnodes/<AppSpace_Name>/<AppNode_Name>/config  
    •    *.config
    •    *.log
    •    *.ini
    •    *.tra
    •    *.substvar
    •    *.ear
    •    *.sh
    •    *.exe (In case of window)
    •    *.xml


2. TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition:
    •    *.ear
    •    *.zip