Installing snapshots on offline process servers

If you want to install a snapshot to a process server that is not currently connected to the Process Center server (an offline server), create an installation package, extract it, and transfer it to the offline server. Then, use administrative commands on the server to install the package.

Before you begin

Complete the following tasks before you install a snapshot on an offline process server.

Create a snapshot of the process application to be installed.
Add an offline server to the Process Center console. When you are installing applications on a process server in an offline mode, you must make sure that the version of the target process server is the same or higher than the version of your Process Center server. For more information about process server versions, see the topic Installing process application snapshots.
If you intend to install a snapshot of an advanced process application (which is a process application that has been opened in an IBM® Integration Designer workspace or that contains a toolkit that has been opened in the workspace), you can only install the snapshot on an IBM Business Process Manager Advanced offline server. If you attempt to install the snapshot on a Business Process Manager Standard or Business Process Manager Express offline server, you will receive a message or exception that states that the server does not contain sufficient capabilities to run the process application. Additional information about server capabilities is in the topic Capabilities of IBM Business Process Manager configurations.

About this task

These tasks use the Process Center console, the retrieveProcessAppPackage command, and the installProcessAppPackage command to create an installation package and install it on an offline server. You can also use the BPMCreateOfflinePackage, BPMExtractOfflinePackage and BPMInstallOfflinePackage commands to create the installation package and install it on the offline server. See "The wsadmin scripting tool for managing process applications" in the related links.

Installation packages are available on the Process Center Server as long as the selected offline server exists. If you remove the offline server, the installation packages for that server are also deleted.