Oracle BPM: Disaster Recovery (Using Enterprise Standalone Recovery)

The last post was about the recovery of BPM if the Enterprise server crashes and it has to be reinstalled on the same machine. The following steps can be followed to install and connect new Enterprise server with the existing database. 

1.      In the Admin Centre of the Enterprise go to configuration (do not start it). In the Configuration option press add button. 
2.    A new window opens up. Check the Use existing Directory Service radio button. Uncheck the Create Process Engine checkbox.
3.  Press next. Select Use a database managed by Oracle BPM 
4.  Press next. Enter the directory Configuration name, its description, Directory provider, BPM Admin user and pass. 
5.  Press next. Enter the host database (IP address or its name).Port by default is 1521 for Directory provider: Oracle BPM Driver version 10, 11. Enter user, pass and SID for the username you gave to your schemas. 
6.  This username and pass should be the BPM directory database (DIR). 
7.  Press next. Save template. Finish 
8.  Close the window. 
9.  Press Start BPM WEB Application from the admin center. 
10.  When it is started. Launch Process Administrator. Check engines, projects, OU, BAM, External Resources, Variable, and External Processes all are working fine.

Starting/Stopping Engine nodes

Process Execution Engine nodes can be started/stopped using Process Administrator.

1. Login to Process Administrator
2. Click Engines. The list of available Process Execution Engines appears.
3. Select the Basic Configuration tab
4. Click Engine Nodes.
5. In the Engine Actions column select one of the following:
• Click play button to start the Engine node.
• Click stop button to stop a running Engine node.

Based on the action you selected, the Process Execution Engine node is started or stopped. If there are problems, click log icon to view the start up log.

Additionally, you can view the engine log file located at: <ORABPM_HOME>/log/<engineName> on that host's node.