In Installation Manager, you can select the features that you want to install within each Operational Decision Manager component.
A default set of features is preselected but you can add or remove features depending on your needs. For a detailed description of the installable components and features, see the following sections:
Installation Manager automatically enforces any dependencies between features and prevents you from clearing these dependencies.
After you finish installing the packages, you can add or remove features from your product with the Modify Packages wizard in Installation Manager.
The following table describes the features available for selection in the IBM® Decision Center component.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Decision Center | An environment for business users to author, manage, and test their business and event rules. It includes a repository for storing business and event rules, and web interfaces (Decision Center Business Console and Decision Center Enterprise Console) for business users to manage decisions. By default, Decision Center is installed on the sample server profile on WebSphere® Application Server. After you complete the installation of the product, you can also configure and deploy Decision Center on a different WebSphere Application Server profile, or install it on other supported application servers. However, the Decision Center Business Console is supported on WebSphere Application Server V8.0 only. |
| Decision Center: Installation artifacts for other application servers > Decision Center for Tomcat | Provides the archives to deploy and configure Decision Center on Tomcat. The archives are copied to <InstallDir>/teamserver/applicationservers/tomcat. For more information, see Configuring. |
| Decision Center: Installation artifacts for other application servers > Decision Center for JBoss | Provides the archives to deploy and configure Decision
Center on
JBoss. The archives are copied to <InstallDir>/teamserver/applicationservers/JBoss. For more information, see Configuring. |
| Decision Center: Installation artifacts for other application servers > Decision Center for WebLogic | Provides the archives to deploy and configure Decision
Center on
WebLogic. The archives are copied to <InstallDir>/teamserver/applicationservers/WebLogic. For more information, see Configuring. |
| Decision Center > Event Widgets for Decision Center | By using the Event Capture widget and the Event Replay widget,
you can capture events from a production system, and replay a sequence
of events, typically on a test system. Event Charting widgets include the Event Chart Manager widget to create and edit charts, the Event Chart widget to view charts as well as real-time charts, which display the history for events, actions, and filters. The Event Tester widget provides a way to test the event logic in a business process. This widget is aimed at testing and must be used only on a test installation. Do not use it on a production installation as it might affect performance. For more information, see Monitoring business event processing using the chart widgets |
| Rule Solutions for Office (for Windows only) | Rule Solutions for Office provides a way for business users to create and edit business rules in Microsoft Word or Excel. This option copies the installer for Rule Solutions for Office to your installation directory. The executable file for the installer is copied to <InstallDir>/Rule Solutions for Office/RuleSolutionsForOffice.exe, seeInstalling Rule Solutions for Office |
| Samples and Tutorials | Installs the projects for the samples and tutorials, and provides
the sample server profile to run the samples and tutorials on WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere Application Server is a prerequisite for this option. |
| Local help system | By default this feature is not selected because the help system points to the online information center. You can select
the Local help system option if you prefer
accessing the help contents locally. To use the local help system,
you need an Internet connection only the first time to download the
help contents from the web. After you download the help contents,
you must set up the local help. For more information, see Installing and accessing the documentation locally.
Important: The local help system does not work on 64-bit platforms,
such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
that do not have a 32-bit compatibility library installed.
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The following table shows the features in the IBM Decision Server package.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Decision Server Rules | |
| Rule Designer | Rule Designer is a development environment within Eclipse to design business rule applications. It is aimed at developers, business analysts, and architects. The Rule Designer views and editors are available from the Rule perspective in Eclipse. |
| Rule Designer > Scorecard Modeler | Scorecard Modeler is a set of extra plug-ins that are integrated into Rule Designer. You can use Scorecard Modeler to create scorecards, integrate them into your business rules, and share them across multiple platforms. |
| Rule Execution Server | Rule Execution Server is
an execution platform for business rules that embeds the rule engine.
It also provides a console to manage and monitor the execution of
business rules. By default, Rule Execution Server is installed on the sample server profile on WebSphere Application Server. After you complete the installation of the product, you can also configure and deploy Rule Execution Server on a different WebSphere Application Server profile, or install it on other supported application servers. Select the type of license that you have:
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| Rule Execution Server: Installation artifacts for other application servers > Rule Execution Server for Tomcat | Provides the archives to deploy and configure Rule Execution Server on
Tomcat. The archives are copied to <InstallDir>/executionserver/applicationservers/tomcat. For more information on how to use the archives to deploy and configure Rule Execution Server, see Configuring Rule Execution Server. |
| Rule Execution Server: Installation artifacts for other application servers > Rule Execution Server for JBoss | Provides the archives to deploy and configure Rule Execution Server on
JBoss. The archives are copied to <InstallDir>/executionserver/applicationservers/JBoss. For more information on how to use the archives to deploy and configure Rule Execution Server, see Configuring Rule Execution Server. |
| Rule Execution Server: Installation artifacts for other application servers > Rule Execution Server for WebLogic | Provides the archives to deploy and configure Rule Execution Server on
WebLogic. The archives are copied to <InstallDir>/executionserver/applicationservers/
WebLogic. For more information on how to use the archives to deploy and configure Rule Execution Server, see Configuring Rule Execution Server. |
| Decision Server Events | WebSphere Application Server is a prerequisite for Decision Server Events. |
| Event Designer | A development environment within Eclipse to design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor event applications. Event Designer is available from the Event perspective in Eclipse. |
| Runtime > Event Runtime | The event runtime is an execution platform that manages real-time
business event coordination. The event runtime requires WebSphere eXtreme
Scale and
must be deployed and configured on WebSphere Application Server. Select the type of license that you have:
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| Runtime > Event Tester Enabler | If Event Tester Enabler is selected, then the Event Tester widget is available. |
| Runtime > Event Connectors (Legacy) | Event connectors provide data connections between the event runtime and external systems. Legacy connectors include email and ftp. |
| Event Widgets for Decision Server | By using the Event Capture widget and the Event Replay widget,
you can capture events from a production system, and replay a sequence
of events, typically on a test system. The Event Tester widget provides a way to test the event logic in a business process. This widget is aimed at testing and must be used only on a test installation. Do not use it on a production installation as it might affect performance. For more information, see Monitoring business event processing using the chart widgets. |
| Integration Components | You can install integration components into the tooling of WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Message Broker to allow these products to send and receive data from Decision Server Events. |
| Shared components | |
| Samples and Tutorials | Installs the projects for the samples and tutorials, and provides
the sample server profile to run the samples and tutorials on WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere Application Server is a prerequisite for this option. |
| Update sites for installation into other Eclipse products | Provides compressed files that contain the Eclipse update sites (and a copy of the Designer plug-ins) to install Rule Designer and Event Designer features into an existing Eclipse. This feature provides an alternate way of installing the Designer plug-ins into a supported Eclipse after the installation of Operational Decision Manager. For more information, see Extending Eclipse with the Rule Designer update sites. |
| Local help system | By default this feature is not selected because the help system points to the online information center. You can select the Local help system option if you prefer accessing the help contents locally. To use the local help system, you need an Internet connection only the first time to download the help contents from the web. After you download the help contents, you must set up the local help. For more information, see Installing and accessing the documentation locally. Important: The local help system does not work on 64-bit platforms,
such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
that do not have a 32-bit compatibility library installed.
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This component contains the events and rules template profiles and runtime that are required to deploy Operational Decision Manager on a WebSphere Application Server.
For details on profile templates, see Operational Decision Manager profile templates.
With Business Rules Embedded, you can use business rules to dynamically configure the behavior of an Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) application or a Dojo-based web application.
For detailed information about this component, see Business Rules Embedded.