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Determining whether to create a standardized or customized ND environment

There are two approaches to configuring your ND environment after profile creation. You can create a standardized ND environment based on IBM-supplied topology patterns, or you can create a customized ND environment to meet your unique business processing needs.


Reasons to create a standardized ND environment

If the IBM-supplied topology patterns (packaged as templates in IBM BPM ) address all or most of your business processing needs, use the Deployment Environment wizard to create a standardized ND environment. The Deployment Environment wizard generates clusters and servers according to several predefined topology patterns, and configures multiple components across them all at the same time.

You should choose to create a standardized ND environment for one or more of the following reasons:


Reasons to create a customized ND environment

If the complexities of your business processing needs are not sufficiently met by any of the IBM-supplied topology patterns, use the features and functions of the administrative console to create a customized ND environment.

You might choose to create a customized ND environment for one or more of the following reasons:

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