Managing virtual application instances

You can manage the IBM® Business Process Manager virtual application instances that are running in your cloud. You can start, stop, or delete your virtual application instance and view the endpoints that are associated with the instance.

About this task

A virtual application instance is a provisioned IBM BPM runtime environment that is created when a pattern or template is deployed into the cloud.

Procedure

To manage IBM BPM virtual application instances, use the following steps in the Virtual Application Instances window.

To restart a stopped virtual application instance in the cloud, click Start . Virtual application instances are not always in the started state. When a virtual application instance is in the stopped state, you can restart the virtual application instance.
Restarting the virtual application instance in the cloud does not happen instantly. The time depends on the virtual application instance size and the system activity. When the deployment process is in progress or all the virtual machines in a cluster are not yet started, the status shows that the instance is starting.

Processing is complete when you see either a message that says The virtual application has been deployed and is ready to use, or the Failed icon ().
To stop a running virtual application, click Stop . Stopping the virtual application instance does not happen instantly. All virtual machines are stopped when a virtual application instance is stopped. If you must stop only certain virtual machines, use the associated virtual machine actions. Stopping a virtual application instance does not release the associated resources.
To remove the virtual application instance and release the resources, click Delete .
Administer endpoints and virtual machines. If the instance is running in the cloud, you can access the endpoints and virtual machines from the following views within the instance:
Middleware perspective

This perspective lists the endpoints in the virtual application instance. You can access detailed information, including log files, about the endpoints.

Virtual machine perspective

This perspective lists the virtual machines in the virtual application instance. You can stop, restart, configure, and test the connection for each virtual machine. You can view the logs for each virtual machine and view more detailed information.

What to do next

Attention: When you change the password of the database or the binding password, on an IBM BPM database node or an LDAP node for example, you might also have to change the configuration IBM BPM. You might have to change the authentication alias, for example.