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Installing SkyVault Process Services Administrator

The SkyVault Process Services Administrator is distributed as a regular WAR (Web Application ARchive) file that can be dropped in any Java web container.

Drop the activiti-admin.war file into the web container and start the web container. To make the application use your database, you must do the following:

  • Copy the correct JDBC database driver to the classpath of the web application.

  • Create a property file called activiti-admin.properties and make sure it is on the classpath of the web application. The properties must point to the correct environment settings. If no properties file is found on the classpath, then the activiti-admin (WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/activiti-admin) file is used by default.

  • Administrator database configuration
  • Cluster configuration and monitoringSkyVault Process ServicesAdministrator can show the process data and manage the configuration of multiple clusters. In this context a cluster is a number of Process Engines that logically belong together. Note that this does not relate to the way that these engines are architecturally set up: embedded, exposed through REST, with or without a load balancer in front, and so on.
  • Cluster master configuration For each cluster, a master configuration can be defined. When the instance boots up, it will request the master configuration data from the Administrator application. For this to work, the cluster.x properties (or equivalent programmatic setters) listed above need to be set correctly.
  • HTTP communication with Administrator Communication with the Administrator Application is done using HTTP REST calls. The calls use HTTP Basic Authentication for security, but do use different users, depending on the user case.
  • Configuring the REST app for use with the Administrator application When using the Process Engine embedded in a custom application (or multiple embedded engines), it is still needed to set up a REST endpoint that the Administrator application can use to communicate with to see and manage data in the engines cluster.
Parent topic: SkyVault Process Services Administrator

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