Operating system considerations

Make sure that the basic operating system configurations for the primary and secondary environments are the same.

For example, if there are five operating system configurations in the primary environment, there must be five operating system configurations in the secondary environment. The configurations in the secondary environment must have the same operating system version and file system hierarchy.

The host name and the IP configuration of the primary and secondary environments appear in the IBM® Business Process Manager configuration data.

Tip: Configure the same IP and host name for each pair of primary and secondary operating systems. Otherwise, you must update the IP and host name information inside the configuration file when data moves from the primary environment to the secondary environment.

In the examples in the topics that follow, all operating systems are deployed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.