Creating profiles, network deployment environments and database tables using the BPMConfig command

You can use the BPMConfig command to create a typical network deployment environment using a properties file that contains all of the values used in the configuration of your deployment environment. At the same time as the deployment environment is created, you can generate the scripts for creating the required database tables, and create a new deployment manager profile and custom profiles for managed nodes by including settings for these profiles in the properties file used by the BPMConfig command.

Before you begin

You must have installed the product. You must also have created all the users that you specify in the properties file.

Important: Run the BPMConfig command with the same properties file on all computers that will participate in the deployment environment. You must first run the command on the computer that has the deployment manager profile and then run it on each computer that has a managed node. At any given time, only one profile creation can be performed on a computer and only one node federation can be performed against a particular deployment manager. For this reason, if you are creating multiple profiles at once on different computers, you must use the federateLater option of the BPMConfig command when creating the managed node profiles and then run the command with the -create -de option sequentially on each computer to federate the managed nodes.

About this task

When run with the -create -de options, the BPMConfig command performs the following tasks:

Creates any local profiles specified in the configuration properties file that do not already exist.
Creates the deployment manager node based on the values in the deployment manager properties file and starts the deployment manager.
For each node specified in the configuration properties file, creates a managed node based on the specified values.
Federates each managed node and adds the node to the deployment environment.
Generates the deployment environment.
Generates the scripts that you can use to create the database tables.

Procedure

To create the deployment environment for the first time, complete the following steps:

On the computer where you want to create the deployment environment, locate the appropriate sample properties file: BPM_Home\BPM\samples\config.
Find the sample properties file that most closely represents your target deployment environment and make a copy of this file. For each of the different product configurations, there is a different folder containing sample configuration files. For example, for configuring an Advanced, AdvancedOnly, or Standard deployment environment, there is an advanced, advancedonly, or standard folder containing a set of sample configuration properties files. Within each folder, there is a set of files that are specific to the different database types and configuration environments. The sample files are named according to the following format: de_type[-environment_type]-topology-database_type[-suffix], where:
- de_type can be set to Advanced, AdvancedOnly, or Standard .
- environment_type can be set to PS for Process Server or PC for Process Center. This variable is not used if de_type is AdvancedOnly.
- topology can be set to SingleCluster or ThreeClusters.
- database_type can be set to DB2, DB2zOS, Oracle, or SQLServer.
- suffix can be set to -WinAuth for an SQL Server database.
For example, the sample configuration properties file for configuring Advanced deployment environments with Process Server in a single cluster topology using a DB2 for z/OS database is called Advanced-PS-SingleCluster-DB2zOS.properties.
Modify your version of the properties file so that the values correspond to your own configuration. When modifying the sample properties file, use the guidance provided within the file for specifying values.
When you are configuring a Process Server environment to use Process Center remotely, you must change the default value for the psProcessCenterHostname property from local host to a valid host name. If you are configuring an offline Process Server and the value for bpm.de.psOffline is set to true, then you do not need to specify a value for the psProcessCenterHostname property.

Note: Your modified properties file must use UTF-8 encoding.
Additional notes for database configuration:
- By default, the bpm.de.deferSchemaCreation property in the sample configuration properties file for DB2 for z/OS is set to true. Do not change this setting, because, for a z/OS database, you cannot create the database objects at the same time that the database scripts are generated. After the BPMConfig command completes, you can run the database scripts to manually create the database objects at a time that you choose. When bpm.de.deferSchemaCreation is set to true, the bootstrap utility, which loads the Process database with system information, also must be run manually.
- Work with your DB2 for z/OS database administrator to establish good naming conventions for DB2 components such as database names, storage group names, schema qualifiers, and VSAM catalog names (VCATs).
Do not add any custom properties to this file when you perform your modifications or the BPMConfig will fail when it is run.

For more information about the available properties, read the comments in the sample files, or see the BPMConfig command-line utility and the sample property file descriptions in Configuration properties for the BPMConfig command.
Run the BPMConfig command on the computer that has the deployment manager, passing it the name of the properties file you created.
```
BPM_home\bin\BPMConfig -create -de my_environment.properties
```
The database SQL scripts are generated in the DMGR_PROFILE/dbscripts folder by default.
- The database scripts that can be used to create the cell-scoped database are generated in DMGR_PROFILE\dbscripts\cell_name\DB2zOS\cell_database_name.
- The database scripts that can be used to create the cluster-scoped database are generated in DMGR_PROFILE\dbscripts\de_name\DB2zOS\cluster_database_name.
These subdirectories also contain a createDatabase.sh script, which you can use to run the database scripts to create the DB2 for z/OS database tables.
Note: For each cluster member in the properties file, BPMConfig adds http and https ports to the virtual hosts list. Check the virtual hosts list after running BPMConfig to make sure that the assigned ports are acceptable.
Use FTP to transfer all the generated database scripts to the z/OS system that contains the installation of DB2. Transfer the createDatabase.sh script as an ASCII text file, and transfer the database schema files in binary mode.
Optional: If you plan to use applications with advanced content or that have been imported into IBM Integration Designer and you are adding more than one deployment environments to the cell, provide a way to distinguish between the advanced content in these business level applications across the deployment environments. For information, see the step that describes how to set the AdvancedDeploymentDEScoped property in Isolating deployment environments.

What to do next

After you have created your deployment environment, you can create the product databases.

After you have created your deployment environment and your database tables, you can start the deployment manager, node agents, and clusters by running the BPMconfig command with the -start action from the deployment manager computer. If you are creating an Advanced or AdvancedOnly deployment environment, the deployment manager and node agents need to be restarted for the cell scoped configuration to take affect. This is only required for the first deployment environment with Advanced or AdvancedOnly capabilities.