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Customize the Process Server settings used to connect to Process Center

After install IBM BPM, you can change the Process Server from an offline server to a Process Center connected server, and vice versa.

Before you begin

Verify that you have installed and configured the Process Server component of IBM BPM.

About this task

Use the procedure in this topic to customize the Process Server connection settings for either a stand-alone server environment or ND environment.

For example, you can perform the following tasks:

If your Process Center is connected to a Process Server, you can manage it directly through the Process Center user interface.

Procedure

To customize the settings used by Process Server to connect to a Process Center:

  1. Stop the dmgr and the Process Server cluster or server if they are running.

  2. Update the Authentication Alias Configuration page and run the administrative task using the steps provided here.

    1. Open the administrative console.

    2. Click Security > Global Security > Java Authentication and Authorization Service > J2C authentication data.

    3. Click the authentication alias that you want to configure, or select the check box associated with the authentication alias and click the Edit button.
      You must be a member of the administrator or configuration role in order to make changes to the authentication alias configurations.

    4. Update the values provided here and run the administrative task.

      • repositoryServerURL: https://localhost:9190/ProcessCenter

      • repositoryServerHeartbeat: 10An offline server is indicated with -1 as a value.
        AdminTask updateBPMConfig {-nodeName <Node_Name> -serverName <Server_Name> -repositoryServerURL https://localhost:9190/ProcessCenter -repositoryServerHeartbeat 10}
        AdminConfig save
        
        You can also update the user-auth-alias and designated-user-auth-alias values.

        The user-auth-alias value specifies the authentication alias for a user to connect from the process server to the Process Center. The user and password set in this alias must be present in the Process Center.

        The designated-user-auth-alias value specifies the authentication alias for a user to access and deploy snapshots to the runtime process server and access that process server from the Process Inspector, which is located in IBM Process Designer. This authentication alias must be defined in both that process server and the Process Center and the passwords must match.

        The updateBPMconfig admin task is available to update the XML configuration files including the 100Custom.xml file to provide a single file that has all of the changes applied to the environment. The admin task creates the 100Custom.xml file if it does not exist. If you have multiple versions of the custom file, such as 101Custom.xml, 102Custom.xml, and so on, then only the 100Custom.xml file is updated.

  3. Restart the dmgr

  4. If you have an ND environment, synchronize the node agents from the administrative console. Deployment manager and node agent synchronization are not needed for a stand-alone server. For information on how to synchronize node agents, see the syncNode command in the WebSphere Application Server information center.

  5. Restart the Process Server cluster or server.

Results

The settings used to connect Process Server to Process Center have been customized. Parent topic: Modify an existing installation Related tasks:
Changing passwords after installation
Related information:

WebSphere Application Server syncNode command
Stop and restart a cluster member: