Upgrading a deployment environment from Standard to Advanced

If you are working with an existing Standard deployment environment, you can upgrade it to an Advanced deployment environment using the BPMConfig command. This enables you to take advantage of the additional capabilities that are provided in an Advanced deployment environment.

About this task

When you run the BPMConfig command to upgrade your deployment environment to Advanced, the upgrade is based on the properties that are specified in a properties file.

If you added a supported customization to your Standard deployment environment, such as a context root prefix or an update to the virtual host mapping, the same customization is automatically applied to the Advanced deployment environment during the upgrade. For example, if you set the bpm.de.contextRootPrefix property and the bpm.de.virtualHost property in your Standard deployment environment properties file, the context root and virtual host mapping of all web modules are automatically updated for the advanced capabilities when the deployment environment is upgraded.

Procedure

  1. Edit the properties in the properties file that you will use to upgrade your deployment environment. Sample properties files that can be edited and used to upgrade your deployment environment are found in the following location:

    install_root/BPM/samples/config/upgrade

    When you are specifying the databases that you want to use in the new Advanced deployment environment, you can use your existing Business Automation Workflow databases or you can specify new databases and buses for the advanced capabilities of the environment. Scripts are provided to generate the resources that are required to support the databases and buses. For example, if you set the bpm.de.deferSchemaCreation property in the properties file to false, all of the tables that are required for the advanced environment capabilities will be generated automatically in your databases.
    Notes:
    • You cannot change the environment type from Workflow Center to Workflow Server (or from Workflow Server to Workflow Center).
    • You cannot change an Advanced deployment environment to a Standard deployment environment.
  2. Run the following command (where properties_file is the name of the properties file that you want to use to upgrade your deployment environment): 
    install_root/bin/BPMConfig -upgrade -de properties_file

    For example:

    install_root/bin/BPMConfig -upgrade -de Advanced-DB2.properties