Preface
This Process Administrator and Business Manager's Guide provides information for administering Process Manager clusters, applications, process instances and work items.
Typically, two different categories or people are involved in administering Process Manager, these are information technology administrators (IT administrators) and business managers.
IT administrators are responsible for installing and maintaining Process Manager and for managing clusters and deployed applications.
Business managers perform administrative tasks for managing process instances and work items.
During the development phase, developers may find themselves performing both these roles -- they need to administer applications to clean up test applications and they need to administer process instances to clean up test process instances and work items.
This guide assumes you have installed Process Manager on your system. For installation instructions, see the Installation Guide.
This chapter has the following sections:
About This Guide
This book has the following contents:
Chapter 1 "Introduction" describes the components of Process Manager. Both IT Administrators and Business Process Managers should read this chapter.
Chapters 2 through 6 provide information needed by IT Administrators.
Chapters 7 and 8 provide information needed by Business Process Managers.
Conventions Used in This Guide
File and directory paths are given in Windows format (with backslashes separating directory names). For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.
This guide uses URLs of the form:
http://server.domain/path/file.html
In these URLs, server is the name of server on which you run your application; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the directory structure on the server; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.
This guide uses the following font conventions:
The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, path names, directory names, and HTML tags.
Italic type is used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense. It is also used for glossary terms.
Viewing Documentation Online
For your convenience, Process Manager manuals are replicated online in both PDF and HTML formats. You can access the online documentation from the Help menu of each Process Manager component. You can access context-sensitive documentation by clicking a Help button or link in each Process Manager component.
The documentation is available at the iPlanet web site:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/index.html
The documentation is also available in the Process Builder installation at builderRoot/manual.
For Further Information
Table 1 summarizes the tasks involved in using Process Manager and explains where to go for more information about each one.
Table 1 Summary of Process Manager Components
Do What?
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Which Process Manager Component?
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Comments
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Install Process Manager 6.0
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For more information, read the Process Manager 6.0 Installation Guide.
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Build a process application
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Process Builder
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The Builder is a graphical user interface for building processes.
For more information, read the Process Builder's Guide.
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Perform the steps in a process
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Process Express
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The Express is a web-based interface that is used by the people who perform tasks in a process. It includes a customized worklist for each person as well as a web-based form for each task.
For more information about Process Express, see the Process Express User's Guide.
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Administer a process application
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Process Administrator and Business Manager
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This is a set of web-based interface for doing administration tasks such as shutting down processes.
For more information, read the rest of this book.
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Build Java custom data fields and activities in Java. Also use the Java API to programmatically interact with Process Manager.
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Process Manager Java classes and API which are available in a JAR file.
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Java programmers can build custom data fields and custom activies in Java that can be imported into the Process Builder. Programmers can also create Java applications that embed Process Manager functionality or present customized front ends to Process Manager.
For more information, see the Process Manager Programmer's Guide.
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