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Modify the IBM Process Server environment type

If you want to modify the environment type that was specified during installation, update the configuration properties in the 100Custom.xml file. The environment type indicates how IBM BPM is used (for example, in a production, stage or test environment). Process authors can set environment-specific variables for each process application and then define values for each type of environment in which a process runs.

For example, load testing might be done on a test server, while a stage environment type might be used as a temporary location to host changes before putting those changes into a production environment.

You might specify Stage as the Environment type if the server you are configuring is accessed and used to review content and new functionality.

Valid values are as follows:

Test

Use Test if the server you are configuring is to be used as a testing environment.

Staging

Use Staging if the server is to serve as a staging platform to be used as a preproduction server.

Production

Use Production if the server is to serve in a production capacity.
The default value is Test.

To change the environment type for a Process Server...


Procedure

  1. Stop the Process Server.
  2. Open the original server configuration file and your local configuration file in text editors.

    • PROFILE_HOME\config\cells\ cell_name\nodes\ node_name\servers\ server_name\process-server\config\system\99Local.xml
    • PROFILE_HOME\config\cells\ cell_name\nodes\ node_name\servers\ server_name\process-server\config\100Custom.xml

  3. Copy the following section from the 99Local.xml file to the 100Custom.xml file.
    <server merge="mergeChildren">
    <environment-type
    merge="replace">Production</environment-type>
    </server>

  4. In the 100Custom.xml file, edit the type value, as shown in the example below. This example specifies the server resides in a staging environment.
    <server merge="mergeChildren">
    <environment-type
    merge="replace">Staging</environment-type>
    </server>
  5. Save your changes, and then close both the 100Custom.xml file and the 99Local.xml file.

  6. Start the Process Server.

Modify runtime server configuration properties