Installing, configuring, and migrating IBM Business Process Manager

IBM® Business Process Manager can be installed and configured for multiple topologies. You can install all components on a single server (known as a stand-alone configuration), or you can distribute the components across multiple systems (known as a network deployment configuration). IBM Business Process Manager Express can be installed and configured for stand-alone topology only. IBM Business Process Manager Standard and IBM Business Process Manager Advanced can be configured in a network deployment environment only. To achieve a highly available environment with failover support, you can install IBM Business Process Manager into a clustered environment that uses the clustering mechanism of WebSphere® Application Server.

  • Roadmap for installing and configuring IBM Business Process Manager
    Each of the IBM Business Process Manager configurations (Advanced, Standard, and Express®) has its own roadmap to guide you through installing and configuring that version of the software.
  • Interactive Installation and Configuration Guide
    This guide takes you through the steps to install and configure the IBM Business Process Manager products (IBM BPM Express, IBM BPM Standard, IBM BPM Advanced, and IBM BPM Advanced - Process Server).
  • Planning for IBM Business Process Manager
    To ensure that the system that you implement meets your needs, plan your IBM Business Process Manager before you introduce its software into your enterprise information system.
  • Installing authoring environments, tools, and add-ons
    After installing IBM Business Process Manager, you can install authoring environments as well as additional tools and add-ons. If you are installing IBM Business Process Manager Advanced, you can install IBM Integration Designer either before or after installing IBM BPM Advanced.
  • Starting your environment
    After you install IBM Business Process Manager and configure a deployment environment, you can use the Quick Start console to start and stop the deployment environment, access the product documentation, or access the administrative consoles related to the deployment environment.
  • Verifying the status of your environment using the Health Center
    After you have finished installing IBM Business Process Manager or at any time thereafter, you can use the Component Health Center in the administrative console to check the status of the configured components in your IBM BPM deployment environment. Examples of configured components include IBM Process Server, Process Center, and Performance Data Warehouse.
  • Verifying the status of your environment using the BPMConfig command
    After you have finished installing IBM Business Process Manager or at any time thereafter, you can use the BPMConfig command-line utility to generate a status report for the configured components in your IBM BPM deployment environment. Examples of configured components include IBM Process Server, Process Center, and Performance Data Warehouse.
  • Modifying and extending an existing installation
    After you install and configure the runtime environment on your system in IBM Business Process Manager, you might want to customize your configuration. For example, you might want to customize settings, set up an additional security provider, set up user accounts, and change and encrypt passwords.
  • Installing Business Process Manager Advanced on a single machine
    You can install IBM Business Process Manager Advanced with Process Center, Process Designer, Integration Designer, Business Monitor, and a Process Server test environment on a single machine. You can install the advanced edition of IBM BPM on a single machine to evaluate the product or to work offline.
  • Backing up databases
    After you have installed IBM Business Process Manager, create backup copies of the databases.
  • Migrating to IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.6
    Migrating refers to the process of moving applications and configuration information from an earlier version of a product to a later version of the product, or from one product to a different product.
  • Upgrading IBM Business Process Manager
    You can install upgrades to IBM Business Process Manager when they are available.You can also upgrade your configuration, perform a rolling upgrade, or make other changes.
  • Uninstalling IBM Business Process Manager
    You can remove IBM Business Process Manager interactively or silently.
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