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Configure Process Portal

Process Portal allows users to interact with processes using a web browser.

• If you used the deployment environment configuration wizard on an ND environment, steps 1 and 2 are already completed for you, and you can skip to step 3.

• If you have a stand-alone profile, skip to step 4.

Procedure

1. If you have an ND environment, and you did not configure your stand-alone profile or configure your deployment environment with the wizard, make sure to configure the Business Space component as part of your IBM BPM Standard profile using manageprofiles.sh. See the manageprofiles command-line utility.

   Tip: To find out whether Business Space is already configured, click WebSphere application server clusters > cluster_name > Business Space Configuration.

   If Business Space is configured, you see a message that indicates that it is already installed.

2. If you did not yet configure Process Portal, perform any one of the following actions, depending on your requirements:

   1. Configure Process Portal while using the administrative console to configure a Process Server or Process Center:
      • Configure a Process Server
      • Configure a Process Center

   2. Configure Process Portal by running the configureBPMProcessPortal command.

      For example, to configure Process Portal on a stand-alone server, using the same server for applications and messaging, using a Jython command:

      AdminTask.configureBPMProcessPortal('[-nodeName myNode -serverName myServer -save true]')

      For example, to configure Process Portal on a cluster, using separate clusters for applications and messaging, using a JACL command:

      $AdminTask configureBPMProcessPortal {-clusterName myCluster -appClusterName myAppCluster 
                                            -meClusterName myMeCluster -save true}

      For more information about using this command, see configureBPMProcessPortal command.

3. If you are using a three or four cluster configuration, and you have not yet configured a routing server for Business Space, to ensure that requests for Process Portal are redirected to the correct cluster, perform Configure a proxy server for Process Portal: .

4. If you want users to be able to access Process Portal using HTTP rather than the Business Space default of HTTPS, perform Designating HTTP or HTTPS settings for Business Space: .

   Restriction: Be aware that not all of the Process Portal functionality is available if you change the access settings to HTTP.

5. If you want Process Portal to run inside an HTML form, you must set the com.ibm.bpm.social.enableRunInFrame variable to true. See Enabling Process Portal to run in an HTML frame: .

6. Perform Verifying Process Portal.

7. If you augmented your IBM BPM Standard profile to include IBM Business Monitor, perform Configure Process Portal to work with IBM Business Monitor.

Results

Business Space, Process Portal, and if necessary, a routing server are configured and working. Users can use a web browser to interact with processes.

If you augmented your IBM BPM Standard profile to include IBM Business Monitor, Process Portal users can click the globe icon to switch to Business Space spaces that include IBM Business Monitor widgets.

• Configure a proxy server for Process Portal
  

  If you use Process Portal in a three or four cluster topology with Process Server and Process Portal on different clusters, they must both be accessible using the same domain and port number. The configureProxyServer script provides a simple way to create the routing server functionality that is mandatory for IBM BPM Process Portal configuration.

• Designating HTTP or HTTPS settings for Process Portal
  Process Portal is configured to be accessed by HTTPS by default. You can change the protocol from the default or back to the default by running a script.
• Enabling Process Portal to run in an HTML frame
  By default, login pages and index pages cannot be displayed inside an HTML frame. Enable Process Portal to run inside an HTML frame by changing the com.ibm.bpm.social.enableRunInFrame variable.
• Verifying Process Portal
  After configuring Process Portal, use the Process Portal verification page to make sure that the applications used by Process Portal are all accessible and that Process Portal is working.
• Configure Process Portal to work with IBM Business Monitor
  

  If you augmented your IBM BPM Standard profile to include IBM Business Monitor, make sure that the Process Portal interface includes the globe icon that allows users to switch to Business Space spaces that include IBM Business Monitor widgets.

• Configure Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL to work with Process Portal
  

  If you have Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL and you want to use it with Process Portal, you must complete several additional configuration steps.

Configure additional components

Related reference:

IBM BPM Production Topologies