Main Responsibilities of TIBCO Admin Server

1. Manage Storage for the domain -- Storage can be file based repository or in a database repository.
2. Enforce Security for the domain -- User authentication & authorization
3. Provide Load balancing -- each domain can be configured with one primary & multiple secondary servers. Primary server allows read & write operations while secondary servers only supports read operations.
4. Provide Failure recovery -- When primary server is down, secondary server continue serving.