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Deploying modules to the test environment

In IBM Integration Designer, you can deploy modules to the test environment and work with server tools that enable you to perform such tasks as creating test servers, editing server configurations, and starting and stopping servers.

The following topics explain how to deploy modules to the test environment and work with the server tools:

• Create servers in the test environment
  

  If you chose to install the Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus test environment profiles when installed IBM Integration Designer, then you will already have default test environment servers. However, if you deleted one or both of these default servers or if you are working with a standalone installation of Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, you will need to create one or more test environment servers for testing your modules.

• Create servers for process applications
  In IBM Integration Designer, you can create a new server to test your modules in a process application or toolkit. The server can run in either a ND (ND) or non-ND environment.
• Editing server configurations in the test environment
  There may be occasions when you want to edit a server configuration.

  For example, you may want to open the server administrative console and then edit some properties, such as configuring the behavior of human tasks at run time. Or you may want to open the IBM Integration Designer server configuration editor and then edit some basic settings, such as modifying a port number. Modifying port numbers, for example, avoids creating additional server profiles.

• Enabling development mode for stand-alone test environment servers
  When a test environment server is installed as part of the IBM BPM installation, the server is automatically set to run in development mode by default. This is the mode for a test environment server. However, if install a stand-alone server separately from your IBM BPM installation and you want to use the stand-alone server as a test environment server, you need to manually enable the server to run in development mode.
• Starting servers in the test environment
  Before you can create a running instance of a component in IBM Integration Designer, you need to start the server.
• Adding modules to test environment servers
  Before you can test your modules on a test environment server, you need to add the modules to the server.
• Viewing the state and status of modules or servers
  

  You can view the state of a module that you have added to a test environment server, or the state of a server that is connected to your workspace, using the Servers view.

• Publishing modules to test environment servers
  In IBM Integration Designer, you will occasionally need to publish modules to a running test environment server. This effectively redeploys the modules and allows the running server to pick up changes that you have made to the components of your modules.
• Publishing changed resources to servers
  

  If changed (new, modified, or deleted) resources exist in your workspace and you click the Update Running Servers button in the Build Activities view, a window will open that enables you to view the resources and choose whether to publish the updates to the servers.

• Remove modules from servers
  From time to time, you will want to remove modules from your servers.

  For example, if you have modules that you no longer need to test, you should consider removing them from the server so that they do not needlessly impact the performance of the server.

• Restarting servers in the test environment
  In IBM Integration Designer, you may encounter situations where you need to restart a running test environment server.

  For example, you will probably need to restart a server if you make changes to the server configuration while the server is running.

• Stopping servers in the test environment
  Whenever you finish using a test environment server in IBM Integration Designer, you should stop it. This ensures that the server will not unnecessarily impact the performance of other tools in the workbench or the computer that it is running on.
• Create or resetting default server profiles
  A default server profile is a test environment server profile that is created when the test environment is installed with IBM Integration Designer. In the Servers view, you can choose to create or reset a default server profile.

  For example, you might want to create a default server profile that you earlier chose not to have created when installed the test environment. Or you might need to reset an existing default server profile that is no longer functioning correctly.