Starting your environment and verifying the installation
After you create the deployment environment and complete the relevant configuration tasks, you can start all the servers in a cluster or deployment environment. Then you can verify the IBM® Business Process Manager installation.
Procedure
- Start the cluster or deployment environment as described in Starting and stopping your environment.
- From the administrative console, verify that you can see IBM Business Process Manager on the Welcome page.
- Check that the enterprise applications are started by clicking .
- Check that the messaging engine is started by clicking Topology, click Messaging engines. . Then click the name of the bus, and under
What to do next
Application and description | Action |
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Process Center Use the Process Center repository to keep all processes, services, and other assets created in IBM Business Process Manager. Test applications in Process Center and deploy applications to the Process Server, which is the process runtime environment. Restriction: This console is not available if you created an Advanced-only Process
Server deployment environment or if you installed Process Server only.
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Log on to the Process Center by using the account for the IBM Business Process Manager administrator or anyone who has been granted
access to the Process Designer. Open the Process Center from the Quick Start menu (see Starting your environment) or by logging on to http://host:port/ProcessCenter/. For example, http://myserver:9080/ProcessCenter/ |
Process Admin Console Use the Process Admin Console to manage the Process Servers in your runtime environments and the Process Center server. Restriction: This console is not
available if you created an Advanced-only Process Server deployment
environment.
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Log on to the Process Admin Console by using the IBM Business Process Manager administrator account and password that was
used for creating the deployment environment. Open the Process Admin Console from the Quick Start menu (see Starting your environment) or by logging on to http://host:port/ProcessAdmin/. For more information about accessing the Process Admin Console, see Accessing the Process Admin Console. |
Performance Admin Console Use the Performance Admin Console tools to manage the Performance Data Warehouse queues in your environment, manage data transfer errors, and monitor overall performance. Restriction: This console is not
available if you created an Advanced-only Process Server deployment
environment.
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Log on to the Performance Admin Console by using the administrator account and
password. Open the Performance Admin Console from the Quick Start menu (see Starting your environment) or by logging on to http://host:port/PerformanceAdmin/. For more information about accessing the Performance Admin Console, see Managing Business Performance Data Warehouses. |
Process Portal Use Process Portal to interact with processes from a web browser. Restriction: Process Portal is
not available if you created an Advanced-only Process Server deployment
environment.
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Process Portal is configured by default. Verify that you can access Process Portal and that the applications used by Process Portal are all accessible, as described in Verifying Process Portal. |
Hiring Sample process application Use the samples that are provided with the product to further verify the installation and as tutorials to learn the product. |
Run the Hiring Sample process application and
tutorial in Process Designer,
as described in Samples and scenarios. Additionally deploy the samples to a Process Server and then run them, as described in Installing process application snapshots. |
To learn about security for the environment and applications, see Creating a secure environment.