Starting your environment and verifying the installation

After you create the deployment environment and complete the relevant configuration tasks, you can start all the servers in a cluster or deployment environment. Then you can verify the IBM® Business Process Manager installation.

Procedure

Start the cluster or deployment environment as described in Starting and stopping your environment.
From the administrative console, verify that you can see IBM Business Process Manager on the Welcome page.
Check that the enterprise applications are started by clicking Applications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications.
Check that the messaging engine is started by clicking Service integration > Buses. Then click the name of the bus, and under Topology, click Messaging engines.
If you configured an Advanced or Advanced-only deployment environment, verify that the Failed Event Manager is enabled. Click Servers > Deployment Environments. Click the name of the deployment environment, and under Additional Properties, click Failed Event Manager.

What to do next

After the cluster has started, verify that the applications are set up correctly by running a series of tests and deploying samples as detailed in the following table.

Table 1. Application verification tests
Application and description	Action
Process Admin Console Use the Process Admin Console to manage the Process Servers in your runtime environments and the Process Center server. Restriction: This console is not available if you created an Advanced-only Process Server deployment environment.	Log on to the Process Admin Console by using the default account for IBM Business Process Manager administrators. For information about accessing the Process Admin Console, see Accessing the Process Admin Console.
Performance Admin Console Use the Performance Admin Console tools to manage the Performance Data Warehouse queues in your environment, manage data transfer errors, and monitor overall performance. Restriction: This console is not available if you created an Advanced-only Process Server deployment environment.	Verify that you can access the Performance Admin Console, as described in Managing Business Performance Data Warehouses.
Process Portal and Business Space Use Process Portal to interact with processes from a web browser. To ensure that Process Portal works properly in the IBM Business Process Manager runtime environment, Business Space is required. Restriction: Process Portal is not available if you created an Advanced-only Process Server deployment environment.	Process Portal and the Business Space component for Process Portal areconfigured by default. Verify that you can access Process Portal and that the applications used by Process Portal are all accessible, as described in Verifying Process Portal.
Business Process Choreographer Use Business Process Choreographer if you require support for both Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) processes and human tasks in a WebSphere® Application Server environment.	Advanced and Advanced-only: Business Process Choreographer is configured by default. Verify that the basic functions work by running the Business Process Choreographer installation verification application, as described in Verifying that Business Process Choreographer works.
Hiring Sample process application Use the samples that are provided with the product to further verify the installation and as tutorials to learn the product.	Run the Hiring Sample process application and tutorial in Process Designer, as described in Samples and tutorials. Additionally deploy the samples to a Process Server and then run them, as described in Installing process application snapshots.

To learn about security for the environment and applications, see Securing IBM Business Process Manager and applications.