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Configure the Business Space component for ND environments
If you have a distributed or ND environment, configure the Business Space component for IBM BPM using the administrative console or commands.
If you are using dmgr and custom profiles, configure Representational State Transfer (REST) endpoints, configure the Business Space component, register the REST endpoints, and configure database tables.
- Configure REST services
If you have a stand-alone server environment or you are using the Deployment Environment wizard to configure your runtime environment, Representational State Transfer (REST) services are configured and enabled automatically. For other environments, use the administrative console to configure the REST services.
- Configure the Business Space component and registering REST endpoints on the administrative console
You can install the Business Space component using the administrative console.
- Configure the Business Space component using the command line
You can set up and configure the Business Space component using the wsadmin command. You can use the wsadmin command to perform the same configuration of Business Space that you can perform in the administrative console.
- Create a Business Space database design properties file
If your Business Space database type is other than the default, create a database design properties file to simplify the database creation process.
- Configure the Business Space database
You can manually install database tables for Business Space on a remote database server with scripts that are generated by the installation program. If you are using a deployment environment, or if your database is remote, install these tables after configuring Business Space.
- Registering widget REST service endpoints using the command line
If you configure the Business Space component using the administrative console, you must register Representational State Transfer (REST) endpoints so that your team can use IBM BPM widgets in Process Portal.
If you do not register your endpoints on the administrative console using the Business Space Configuration and the System REST service endpoint registration pages, you can use the registerRESTServiceEndpoint command.
- Remove the virtual host from the primary cluster member
In some ND topologies, administrators might remove the virtual host from the primary member of a cluster to ensure that all traffic goes through a web server. Configuring the Business Space component on a cluster restores the virtual host, and you might decide to remove the virtual host so that your environment works the same way that it was set up originally.- Configure a proxy server or load-balancing server to use with the Business Space component for Process Portal
If you are using an environment with a proxy server or a load-balancing server, you must set up your environment so that Process Portal works properly.
- Enabling the Federation API across multiple deployment targets
The Federation API allows you to display processes and tasks created in Process Designer and Integration Designer in the same task list. If your environment has multiple clusters in the same cell or includes multiple cells, you must manually configure the federation domains using commands.- Enabling widgets for cross-cell environments
You must manually edit endpoints files if Process Portal is running on a different cell than where the Representational State Transfer (REST) services are running, or if widgets are on different cells than IBM BPM.
- Enabling widgets to work with multiple endpoints
If you have one Process Portal instance configured and you have a need to create another instance of the service endpoints in your environment, configure IBM BPM so that the widgets can display data from the multiple service endpoints.
You must edit two files: the endpoints file, which registers endpoints with the Business Space component, and the widget catalog file, which contains definitions of widgets.