Managing IBM Business Process Manager servers

From the Process Center console, repository administrators can manage the IBM® BPM servers in their environment.

An offline server is a runtime process server that is not connected to a Process Center. You can still use offline servers when you deploy snapshots of process applications. However, the method for deploying process application snapshots to an offline process server differs from the method for deploying process application snapshots to an online process server.

Online process servers configured during IBM BPM installation are automatically discovered and displayed in the web-based Process Center console. Any offline servers that have been added are also displayed in the Process Center console.

From the Process Center console, repository administrators can monitor the snapshots of process applications installed on each connected process server in the IBM BPM environment. For example, administrators can monitor all snapshots installed on connected test and production servers. The Process Admin Console enables you to complete configuration and administrative tasks for each connected process server.

Note: Use the Performance Admin Console to manage the Business Performance Data Warehouses in your environment. You can start the Performance Admin Console using the Windows start menu or desktop shortcuts, or you can open a web browser to the following location: http://[host_name]:[port]/PerformanceAdmin .

The following figure shows a sample server configuration for IBM BPM where all process servers are connected to the Process Center:

This graphic shows a sample server configuration of servers that are all connected to the process center

Before performing any of the following tasks, start IBM Process Designer and open the Process Center console.