Setting up target environments

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Setting up the target environment includes creating the target object store, creating a workflow system, and running tasks in the Case configuration tool or Case administration client to define and register the target environment. Depending on the solutions that you plan to deploy in the target environment, you might need to run additional configuration tasks.

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In test and production environments, you deploy solutions in target environments. The first time that you run the Case configuration tool to configure the production environment after you install IBM® Business Automation Workflow, you must define and register at least one target environment. Later, you can use the Case administration client to define additional target environments iteratively as needed to support your solutions.

You can deploy one solution or many solutions into a single target environment. Ensure that you have enough system resources for the number of cases that you anticipate having in each database.

For the simplest configuration, deploy all of your solutions in a single target environment. In this configuration, all of the solutions share a single Content Platform Engine target object store and a single workflow system.

To separate the workload among databases, you can deploy each solution or a few solutions into a separate target environment. In this configuration, each solution or group of solutions is provided with a dedicated Content Platform Engine target object store and workflow system. This configuration provides data separation between the solutions, which allows for greater flexibility in database operations, database maintenance, and assigning security privileges.

If you configure multiple test and production environments, and you configure multiple IBM Content Cortex domains, ensure that each target environment is on the same domain as its corresponding staging object store.

Security considerations: The LDAP security configuration for solutions in a production environment is more restricted than the development environment. Production environments can use a different LDAP than the development environment. The LDAP is tied to the Content Cortex domain that hosts the IBM Business Automation Workflow production domain.

It is a best practice to create a case management master group to use for assigning access to object stores at the time that you create the object store. Give this group Use object store permission. You can grant new users access to the object store by adding them to the master group. This approach can prevent issues with changing security on an established object store.