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Plan for a custom Business Process Choreographer configuration

Plan the configuration parameters and options for creating a custom configuration, using either the Administrative console's Business Process Choreographer configuration page or the bpeconfig.jacl configuration script.

You have performed Plan the topology, setup, and configuration path, and have selected the "Flexible custom configuration" configuration path.


Procedure

  1. Know which of the following you will use to configure Business Process Choreographer:

    • Administrative console's Business Process Choreographer configuration page

    • The bpeconfig.jacl configuration script

  2. If you do not have enough information or authority to create the whole configuration on your own, consult and plan with the people who are responsible for other parts of the system.

    For example:

    • You might need to request information about your organization's LDAP server, if it uses authentication you will need to request a user ID, and authorization.

      If you are not authorized to create the database, your database administrator (DBA) must be included in planning the databases. Your DBA will need a copy of the database scripts to customize and run.

  3. Plan security, user IDs, and authorizations
  4. Plan the databases for Business Process Choreographer
  5. Plan for the Business Flow Manager and Human Task Manager
  6. Plan for the people directory provider
  7. Plan for the Business Process Choreographer Explorer and Business Process Archive Explorer

  8. If you will use the Administrative console's Business Process Choreographer configuration page, make sure that you have planned all the values that you will enter on the configuration page, which is described in Business Process Choreographer configuration.

  9. If you will use the bpeconfig.jacl configuration script:
    1. Verify that you have planned all the options and parameter values that you must specify on the command-line, or in a batch file. The options and parameters are summarized in Use the bpeconfig.jacl script to configure Business Process Choreographer, and are described in detail in bpeconfig.jacl script file.

    2. If you want, you can specify the parameter values in a response file.

    3. If you will use a batch file to run the bpeconfig.jacl configuration script, create the batch file or shell script.


Results

You have planned everything you need to be able to create a custom Business Process Choreographer configuration.


What to do next

Perform Configure Business Process Choreographer.