IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2.1            

Deploying to Production

To deploy your Process application from your development system to a production site, use the following procedure.

This procedure is specific to Process applications and assumes that you previously completed other steps for deploying applications to production, such as the following ones:
  • Configuring users and groups in your LDAP directory service
  • Importing object definitions
  • Setting security on object definitions
  • Importing classes and metadata into the object store
  1. Move the Process queues from the development isolated region to the production isolated region, as follows:
    1. Create a .cdl file by running the vwtool dump command at the command line. You must be a superuser or a member of the fnadmin group to run vwtool. For information, see vwtool.
    2. Transfer the Process Engine database objects in each working development isolated region in either of two ways:
      • Duplicate the development isolated region in the (existing) production isolated region by exporting and importing the development isolated region. For information about exporting and importing isolated regions, see Exporting and importing the isolated region configuration.
      • Enter the following command at the command line:
           vwtfer -o region_information.cdl -r n

        where region_information.cdl is user-defined (such as developer_region.cdl) and n is the number that is assigned to the production isolated region.

        Important: vwtfer is an undocumented system support tool. If not used correctly, it can be destructive and is not to be used without IBM® support assistance.
    3. Check the properties of the production isolated region configuration by using vwtool. For example:
         vwtool -r n
         config

      where n is the number that is assigned to the production isolated region.

  2. Import the workflow definitions.
  3. Update subscriptions (the version number of a workflow definition is contained in the VWVersion property).
  4. If you are deploying a FileNet® P8-based application that uses FileNet Workplace, move the following items to the production Application Engine server:
    • Your web application tree
    • Any Java™Server Pages (JSP) files
    Similarly, to deploy an application that uses FileNet Web Services or FileNet Open Client, copy the same items to the production server.


Last updated: October 2015
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