Managing online and offline workflow servers

Repository administrators can manage the available online and offline servers. You'll find these servers listed in the Servers page under Business automations.

As a non-admin user, you can see the list of servers, their type and status, and workflow automation details if you have access to that application. However, you can't perform the actions that an admin user can perform.

An online workflow server is actively connected to Business Automation Studio. If a workflow server is set up to be online, it will connect when it starts and send notifications of its settings and updates with data about the installed snapshots.

Note: You can also take an online server offline, which overrides the workflow server settings and prevents it from coming online.

An offline server is configured to work with runtime workflow servers that are not connected to Cloud Pak for Business Automation so that you can manage offline snapshot deployment packages for a particular environment. The method for deploying process application snapshots to an offline workflow server differs from the method for deploying process application snapshots to an online workflow server.

On the Servers page, the Connection status column indicates whether each server is online or offline.

Ensure you have repository administrator access to perform the following tasks.