Adding Logical Servers to an Environment

The Edit Environment page enables you to add one or more logical servers to the environment. You can add a logical server to an environment using either of the following two methods:

Select from a list of known logical servers.

The list of known logical servers is populated from the definition templates that are installed with the configuration system. These definition files provide general information about each logical server as well as the requirements for other logical servers within the system. To deploy a configuration successfully, the environment must contain a complete set of related logical servers, for example:

One or more Analytic Engines

A JMS Server or server cluster, either Software AG Universal Messaging or Broker Server (deprecated)

Appropriate Data Collection Service

My webMethods Server

Choose a template.

The Design Servers tab in the Environment Configuration area of Edit Environments page provides built-in templates to help you define Optimize environments. To access these templates, click the Add From Template button. These templates include webMethods Optimize for Infrastructure and webMethods Optimize for Process.

Each template specifies common configurations and logical servers that are associated with the product. After you select a template, the configuration engine populates the environment with the logical servers that are defined in that template.

The set of logical servers typically required for Optimize for Process is as follows:

Analytic Engine

Software AG Universal Messaging or Broker Server (deprecated)

Web Service Data Collector

My webMethods Server

The set of logical servers typically required for Optimize for Infrastructure is as follows:

Analytic Engine

Software AG Universal Messaging or Broker Server (deprecated)

Infrastructure Data Collector

My webMethods Server

Tip:
Although you cannot edit the templates, you can change the name of any logical server by clicking the name of the server or by clicking the Edit icon (

) in the Actions column for the server.

To add a logical server

1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > System-Wide > Environments > Define Environments.

The Define Environments page displays a list of defined environments and their configuration and deployment statuses.

2. In the Environments list, click the Edit icon (

) in the row of the environment that you want to define or edit. You can also click the name of the environment in the Environments list.

3. On the Edit Environment page, click the Design Servers tab if that tab is not already active.

The Design Servers tab displays a list of logical servers, the type of each logical server, and the name of the template used to create each server.

4. Do one or both of the following:

Click Add to choose from a list of known logical servers. Select one or more logical servers from the list and click OK.

Click Add From Template to choose a template.

Note:
The Add From Template option is cumulative rather than additive. If you add a My webMethods Server and a Broker Server (deprecated) individually to an environment using the Add button and then select the Optimize for Infrastructure template using the Add From Template button, only an Infrastructure Data Collector and an Analytic Engine will be added to the environment. If you want to add other logical servers after selecting a template, select those additional servers using the Add button. The Optimize for Infrastructure template contains Logical Servers only for Analytic Engine, JMS Server, Infrastructure Data Collector, and My webMethods Server. The Optimize for Process template contains Logical Servers only for Analytic Engine, JMS Server, My webMethods Server, and Web Service Data Collector.

The next step in configuring an environment is to configure each logical server, as described in the next section.