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Manage IBM BPM servers
From the Process Center Console, repository administrators can manage the IBM BPM servers in their environment.
An offline server is a runtime process server that is not connected to a Process Center.
You can still use offline servers when you deploy snapshots of process applications. However, the method for deploying process application snapshots to an offline process server differs from the method for deploying process application snapshots to an online process server.
Online process servers configured during IBM BPM installation are automatically discovered and displayed in the web-based Process Center Console. Any offline servers that have been added are also displayed in the Process Center Console.
From the Process Center Console, repository administrators can monitor the snapshots of process applications installed on each connected process server in the IBM BPM environment.
For example, administrators can monitor all snapshots installed on connected test and production servers. The Process Admin Console enables you to complete configuration and administrative tasks for each connected process server.
Use the Performance Admin Console to manage the Business Performance Data Warehouses in your environment. You can start the Performance Admin Console using the Windows start menu or desktop shortcuts, or you can open a web browser to the following location: http://[host_name]:[port]/PerformanceAdmin .
The following figure shows a sample server configuration for IBM BPM where all process servers are connected to the Process Center:
Before performing any of the following tasks, start IBM Process Designer and open the Process Center Console.
- Monitoring installed snapshots on each Process Server from the Process Center Console
You can monitor snapshots installed on process servers from the Process Center Console.
- Configure IBM Process Servers from the Process Center Console
You can configure process servers from the Process Center console.
For example, you can manage caches or perform task cleanup.
- Adding offline servers to the Process Center Console
You can install snapshots of process applications to process servers that are not connected to the Process Center server. To do so, first add an offline server.
- Remove offline servers from the Process Center Console
If an offline server has been removed from your IBM BPM configuration, you can remove it from the Process Center Console.
- Taking process servers offline
If a runtime process server is connected to the Process Center and is currently online, you can take the server offline.
- Bringing process servers back online
To bring a server back online, remove the offline server from the Process Center Console and then edit the configuration files for the server.