This topic applies only to the IBM Business Process Manager Standard configuration.

This topic applies only to the IBM Business Process Manager Advanced configuration.

Enabling indexing on a federated IBM BPM system

The distributed Process Federation Server index enables process participants to see a consolidated list of both BPD- and BPEL-related tasks from all the IBM® BPM systems in the federated environment. For data from a federated IBM BPM system to appear in the index, you must enable indexing on the system.

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The distributed index ensures that users have fast access to federated data, and relieves back-end systems from expensive queries. There is an indexing service for each federated IBM BPM system in the federated environment, and a common REST-based query service that provides data to users. The Process Federation Server index is based on Elasticsearch, an open source search service.

You enable indexing by creating change log tables on each of the federated IBM BPM systems and then configuring the systems to update the tables. You can then configure the indexing service for a federated system through entries in the server.xml configuration file on Process Federation Server.