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

Test environment

You have the option to use either a local test environment or a remote one. Developers using systems that are constrained on resources (CPU, memory, disk space) should consider configuring a remote test environment and pointing their IBM® Integration Designer at that remote environment for testing their processes and monitor models.

As an IBM Integration Designer developer, how you set up a remote environment depends on your target deployment environment.

Process Server

In an IBM Integration Designer unit test environment, the server can be installed locally or on a remote machine. When Process Server is installed locally, IBM Integration Designer finds it and displays it in the Servers view.

When Process Server is installed remotely, you can target it from IBM Integration Designer by creating a new server.

Important: Beginning with IBM Integration Designer V8.5, all servers, except for the IBM Integration Designer unit test environment and IBM BPM Express servers, are installed with a network deployment configuration. IBM Integration Designer V8.5 includes a server configuration named IBM Process Server that should be used if you want to test integration and mediation modules. The IBM Process Server product does not support a network deployment environment. Therefore, if Process Server is not already included in the Servers view of the IBM Integration Designer unit test environment, and you want to create a server to use for testing integration and mediation modules, make sure that the server configuration named IBM Process Server points to either the IBM Integration Designer unit test environment or an IBM BPM Express server.

In the Servers view, right-click and select New > Server.
Select IBM > IBM Process Server.
Specify the remote server host name and click Next.
Specify the profile name, connection, and security information, and click Finish.

Process Server via Process Center

If you have a IBM Integration Designer unit test environment, Process Server can be installed locally or on a remote machine, as described in the previous section. If you have only Process Center, you can switch to the Process Center perspective and are prompted for connection information to the Process Center. To target a remote server:

In the Process Center, select Window > Preferences.
Select Business Integration > Process Center.
Specify the Process Center URI, user name, and password.
Click Test Connection. If everything is correct, click OK.

Learn about the Process Center by reading Process development with the Process Center. If you experience communication problems with the remote server, such as problems in publishing to the remote server or obtaining the status of the server, see Resolving communication problems with remote servers.

Installing to a unique package group

You can install IBM Integration Designer and the test environment to a unique package group on the same system with an existing supported Rational® Application Developer installation. You must have an existing instance of IBM Installation Manager, and can install IBM Integration Designer after you add its repository location in Installation Manager. You will also need to upgrade Installation Manager to the current level by adding its repository location.

Start Installation Manager.
Click File > Preferences, and then click Repositories.
In the Repositories window, use the Add Repository button to specify the following repository locations for IBM Integration Designer and for Installation Manager:
- image_directory\disk1\diskTag.inf
- image_directory\disk1\IM_os_bit\repository.config
where image_directory is the root directory of the DVD or the extracted installation image, and os_bit denotes your operating system and bit version (for example, win64).

Click OK each time to add the repository and close the Add Repository window.
Click OK to close the Preferences window.
From the Installation Manager window, click Install and then follow the installation prompts.
Note: When you get to the Location page, Installation Manager displays the choice of whether to install into a new package group or into the existing supported Rational Application Developer package group. A package group is a directory that contains resources that packages share with other packages in the same group. To install IBM Integration Designer into the directory that contains the existing Rational Application Developer installation, choose Use the existing package group. The Installation Directory field identifies where Rational Application Developer is installed.