Administering environments and capabilities

As an admin, you can manage your environments and capabilities in IBM® webMethods Hybrid Integration.

Before you begin

You must have an admin role to complete this task. The type of admin role that you have determines which tasks you can perform. For more information about permissions, see Roles.

About this task

You can create different types of environments and customize them for your user groups by enabling specific capabilities and configuration elements within those environments.

Note:

The IBM SaaS Console refers to environments as service instances. The first environment in a webMethods Hybrid Integration subscription must be created in the IBM SaaS Console. For more information, see Creating the first instance in the IBM SaaS Console. After the first instance is created, environments can be managed in the webMethods Hybrid Integration UI on the Environment management page.
Trial users can have only one environment.

When you create an environment, you can select from the following environment stages:

Development
Test
Production

These stages map to your intended use of the environment in your development lifecycle, enabling your teams to build, test, and deploy integrations in controlled stages, and facilitate seamless automation and reduce risks. By isolating your development, test, and production environments, your teams can manage configurations, security settings, and data flow separately. This structured approach improves collaboration and creates smoother deployment processes.

In these environments, you can then add and remove capabilities to meet the needs of your users. You can add capabilities on the webMethods Hybrid Integration home page and also manage them on the Capabilities tab on the environment details page. For more information, see Adding and managing capabilities.

Procedure

Adding environments
1. In the Key tasks section on the home page, click Manage environments.
  
  You can also access the Environment management page at any time from the webMethods Hybrid Integration Main menu.
  
  The Environment management page is displayed, which provides an overview of all of your environments and includes details, such as the environment name, ID, region, stage, and capabilities.
2. Click Add environment and enter the environment details.
  1. Enter a display name for the environment.
  2. From the Region list, select where you want the environment to be hosted.
  3. From the Stage list, select Development, Test, or Production. The stage maps to your intended use of the environment in your development lifecycle.
  4. Enter tags to categorize your environment.
  5. Click Add environment.
  After your environment is provisioned, it is displayed in the list of environments.
Managing environments
1. To see more details about an environment, click an environment name and then select the Environment details tab.
  
  You can also edit the Environment name and Tags for the environment on this page.
2. To view all of the environments that you have access to, click the environment drop-down list from the menu bar in the header.
  
  You can click an environment name in this list to move to that environment.
3. Delete an environment by taking one of the following actions.
  - On the Environment details tab, click Remove environment.
  - From the Environment management page, click the Options menu for the environment that you want to delete, and select Remove.
  Important: You can remove an environment only when you're not logged in to it and when it contains no added capabilities.
4. In the Confirm remove dialog, type the name of the environment that you want to remove, and click Remove.

What to do next

Add capabilities to your environments.