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Installing and configuring Red Hat Decision Manager on Red Hat JBoss Web Server

Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2

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Abstract

This document describes how to install Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2 on Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher.

Preface

This document describes how to install Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2 on JBoss Web Server.

Chapter 1. About Red Hat Decision Manager

Red Hat Decision Manager is an open source decision management platform that combines business rules management, complex event processing, Decision Model & Notation (DMN) execution, and Business Optimizer for solving planning problems. It automates business decisions and makes that logic available to the entire business.

Business assets such as rules, decision tables, and DMN models are organized in projects and stored in the Decision Central repository. This ensures consistency, transparency, and the ability to audit across the business. Business users can modify business logic without requiring assistance from IT personnel.

Red Hat JBoss Web Server is an enterprise ready web server designed for medium and large applications, based on Tomcat. Red Hat JBoss Web Server provides organizations with a single deployment platform for Java Server Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet technologies, PHP, and CGI.

On a Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation, you can install Decision Server and the headless Decision Manager controller. Alternatively, you can run the standalone Decision Central JAR file.

The instructions in this document explain how to install Red Hat Decision Manager in a Red Hat JBoss Web Server instance. For instruction on how to install Red Hat Decision Manager in other environments, see the following documents:

For information on supported components, see the following documents:

1.1. Red Hat Decision Manager components

Red Hat Decision Manager is made up of Decision Central and Decision Server.

  • Decision Central is the graphical user interface where you create and manage business rules. You can install Decision Central in a Red Hat JBoss EAP instance or on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OpenShift).

    Decision Central is also available as a standalone JAR file. You can use the Decision Central standalone JAR file to run Decision Central without needing to deploy it to an application server.

  • Decision Server is the server where processes, rules, and other artifacts are executed. It is used to instantiate and execute processes and rules and solve planning problems. You can install Decision Server in a Red Hat JBoss EAP instance, on OpenShift, in an Oracle WebLogic server instance, in an IBM WebSphere Application Server instance, or as a part of Spring Boot application.

    You can configure Decision Server to run in managed or unmanaged mode. If Decision Server is unmanaged, you must manually create and maintain KIE containers (deployment units). A KIE container is a specific version of a project. If Decision Server is managed, the Decision Manager controller manages the Decision Server configuration and you interact with the Decision Manager controller to create and maintain KIE containers.

    On a Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation, you can install Decision Server and the headless Decision Manager controller. Alternatively, you can run the standalone Decision Central JAR file.

1.2. Roles and users

To access Decision Central or Decision Server, you must create users and assign them appropriate roles before the servers are started. This section describes available Red Hat Decision Manager user roles.

Note

The admin, analyst, and rest-all roles are reserved for Decision Central. The kie-server role is reserved for Decision Server. For this reason, the available roles can differ depending on whether Decision Central, Decision Server, or both are installed.

  • admin: Users with the admin role are the Decision Central administrators. They can manage users and create, clone, and manage the repositories. They have full access to make required changes in the application. Users with the admin role have access to all areas within Red Hat Decision Manager.
  • analyst: Users with the analyst role have access to all high-level features. They can model projects. However, these users cannot add contributors to spaces or delete spaces in the Design → Projects view. Access to the Deploy → Execution Servers view, which is intended for administrators, is not available to users with the analyst role. However, the Deploy button is available to these users when they access the Library perspective.
  • rest-all: Users with the rest-all role can access Decision Central REST capabilities.
  • kie-server: Users with the kie-server role can access Decision Server (KIE Server) REST capabilities. This role is mandatory for users to have access to Manage and Track views in Decision Central.

Chapter 2. Downloading the Red Hat Decision Manager installation files

Depending on your environment and installation requirements, download a Red Hat Decision Manager distribution.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Software Downloads page in the Red Hat Customer Portal (login required), and select the product and version from the drop-down options:

    • Product: Decision Manager
    • Version: 7.2
  2. Download one of the following product distributions, depending on your preferred installation method:

    Note

    You only need to download one of these distributions.

    • If you want to use the installer to install Red Hat Decision Manager on Red Hat JBoss Web Server, download Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2.0 Installer (rhdm-installer-7.2.0.jar). The installer graphical user interface guides you through the installation process.
    • To install Decision Server on Red Hat JBoss Web Server using the deployable zip file, download Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2.0 Add Ons (rhdm-7.2.0-add-ons.zip).

      The ZIP files do not require a graphical user interface so you can install Red Hat Decision Manager using SSH.

    • To run Decision Central without needing to deploy it to an application server, download Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2.0 Decision Central Standalone (rhdm-7.2.0-decision-central-standalone.jar).

Chapter 3. Using the Red Hat Decision Manager installer

This section describes how to install Decision Server and the headless Decision Manager controller using the installer JAR file. The JAR file is an executable file that installs Red Hat Decision Manager in an existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server installation. You can run the installer in interactive or command line interface (CLI) mode.

Next steps:

Follow the instructions in one of the following sections:

3.1. Using the installer in interactive mode

The installer for Red Hat Decision Manager is an executable JAR file. You can use it to install Red Hat Decision Manager in an existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server installation.

Note

For security reasons, you should run the installer as a non-root user.

Prerequisites

  • A backed-up Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server installation is available.
  • Sufficient user permissions to complete the installation are granted.

    Note

    Ensure that you are logged in with a user that has write permission for Tomcat.

  • The JAR binary is included in $PATH environment variable. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it is included in the java-$JAVA_VERSION-openjdk-devel package.

    Note

    Red Hat Decision Manager is designed to work with UTF-8 encoding. If a different encoding system is used by the underlying JVM, unexpected errors might occur. To ensure UTF-8 is used by the JVM, use the "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" system property.

Procedure

  1. In a terminal window, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the installer JAR file and enter the following command:

    java -jar rhdm-installer-7.2.0.jar
    Note

    When running the installer on Windows, you may be prompted to provide administrator credentials during the installation. To prevent this requirement, add the izpack.mode=privileged option to the installation command:

    java -Dizpack.mode=privileged -jar
    rhdm-installer-7.2.0.jar

    Furthermore, when running the installer on a 32-bit Java virtual machine, you might encounter memory limitations. To prevent this issue, run this command:

    java -XX:MaxHeapSize=4g -jar
    rhdm-installer-7.2.0.jar

    The graphical installer displays a splash screen and a license agreement page.

  2. Click I accept the terms of this license agreement and click Next.
  3. Specify the Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server home where you want to install Red Hat Decision Manager and click Next.
  4. Select the components that you want to install and click Next.

    You cannot install Decision Central on Red Hat JBoss Web Server. You can only install it on Red Hat JBoss EAP. However, you can install Decision Server and the headless Decision Manager controller on Red Hat JBoss Web Server. The headless Decision Manager controller is used to manage Decision Server. Install the headless Decision Manager controller if you plan to manage multiple Decision Server instances.

  5. Create a user and click Next. By default, the new user is given the admin, kie-server, and rest-all roles. The kie-server role is required to acces Decision Server REST capabilities.

    Note

    Make sure that the specified user name is not the same as an existing user, role, or group. For example, do not create a user with the user name admin.

    The password must have at least eight characters and must contain at least one number and one non-alphanumeric character, but not & (ampersand).

    Make a note of the user name and password. You will need them to access Decision Central and Decision Server.

  6. On the Installation Overview page, click Next to start the installation. The Installation Overview page lists the components that you will install.
  7. When the installation has completed, click Next.
  8. When Processing finished appears at the top of the screen, click Next to complete the installation.
  9. If desired, click Generate Installation Script and Properties File to save the installation data in an XML file, and then click Done. You can use this file to automatically install Red Hat Decision Manager on the same type of server. Note that you must change the installpath parameter in the XML file to specify the path of the new server that you want to install Red Hat Decision Manager on. Enter the following command to perform an installation with the XML file:

    java -jar rhdm-installer-7.2.0.jar <path-to-file>

You have successfully installed Red Hat Decision Manager using the installer.

3.2. Using the installer in CLI mode

You can run the Red Hat Decision Manager installer through the command-line interface (CLI).

Note

For security reasons, you should run the installer as a non-root user.

Prerequisites

  • A backed-up Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server installation is available.
  • Sufficient user permissions to complete the installation are granted.

    Note

    Ensure that you are logged in with a user that has write permission for Tomcat.

  • The JAR binary is included in the $PATH environment variable. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it is included in the java-$JAVA_VERSION-openjdk-devel package.

    Note

    Red Hat Decision Manager is designed to work with UTF-8 encoding. If a different encoding system is used by the underlying JVM, unexpected errors might occur. To ensure UTF-8 is used by the JVM, use the "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" system property.

Procedure

  1. In a terminal window, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the installer file and enter the following command:

    java -jar rhdm-installer-7.2.0.jar -console

    The command-line interactive process will start and display the End-User License Agreement.

    press 1 to continue, 2 to quit, 3 to redisplay.
  2. Read the license agreement, enter 1, and press Enter to continue:

    Specify the home directory of one of the following servers:  Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 or Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1
  3. Enter the parent directory of an existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher installation.

    The installer will verify the location of the installation at the location provided. Enter 1 to confirm and continue.

  4. Follow the instructions in the installer to complete the installation.

    Note

    When you create the user name and password, make sure that the specified user name does not conflict with any known title of a role or a group. For example, if there is a role called admin, you should not create a user with the user name admin.

    The password must have at least eight characters and must contain at least one number and one non-alphanumeric character (not including the character &).

    Make a note of the user name and password. You will need them to access Decision Central and Decision Server.

  5. When the installation has completed, you will see this message:

    Would you like to generate an automatic installation script and properties file?
  6. Enter y to create an XML file that contains the installation data, or n to complete the installation. If you enter y, you are prompted to specify a path for the XML file.
  7. Enter a path or press the Enter key to accept the suggested path.
  8. If you installed only Decision Server, repeat these steps to install the headless Decision Manager controller on a separate server.

Chapter 4. Decision Server ZIP file installation and configuration

You can install Decision Server using the rhdm-7.2-kie-server-jws.zip file .

4.1. Installing Decision Server from ZIP files

Decision Server provides the runtime environment for business assets and accesses the data stored in the assets repository (knowledge store). You can use ZIP files to install Decision Server on an existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server instance.

Note

To use the installer JAR file to install Decision Server, see Chapter 3, Using the Red Hat Decision Manager installer.

Prerequisites

  • The following files have been downloaded, as described in Chapter 2, Downloading the Red Hat Decision Manager installation files:

    • Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2.0 Add Ons (rhdm-7.2.0-add-ons.zip)
    • Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2.0 Maven Repository (rhdm-7.2.0-maven-repository.zip)
  • A backed-up Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server installation is available. The base directory of the Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation is referred to as JWS_HOME.
  • Sufficient user permissions to complete the installation are granted.

Procedure

  1. Unzip the rhdm-7.2.0-add-ons.zip file.
  2. From the unzipped rhdm-7.2.0-add-ons.zip file, extract the following files:

    • rhdm-7.2-kie-server-jws.zip
    • rhdm-7.2-decision-engine.zip

    In the following instructions, the directory that contains the extracted rhdm-7.2-kie-server-jws.zip file is called JWS_TEMP_DIR and the directory that contains the extracted rhdm-7.2-decision-engine.zip file is called ENGINE_TEMP_DIR.

  3. Copy the JWS_TEMP_DIR/rhdm-7.2-kie-server-jws/kie-server.war directory to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/webapps directory.

    Note

    Ensure the names of the Red Hat Decision Manager deployments you are copying do not conflict with your existing deployments in the Red Hat JBoss Web Server instance.

  4. Remove the .war extensions from the kie-server.war folder.
  5. Move the kie-tomcat-integration-7.14.0.Final-redhat-00002.jar file from the ENGINE_TEMP_DIR directory to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/lib directory.
  6. Move the jboss-jacc-api-<VERSION>.jar, slf4j-api-<VERSION>.jar, and slf4j-jdk14-<VERSION>.jar files from the ENGINE_TEMP_DIR/lib directory to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/lib directory, where <VERSION> is the version artifact file name, in the lib directory.
  7. Unzip the rhdm-7.2.0-maven-repository.zip file.
  8. Copy the following libraries from the unzipped Maven repository to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/lib folder:

    org.jboss.spec.javax.transaction:jboss-transaction-api_1.2_spec
    org.jboss.integration:narayana-tomcat
    org.jboss.narayana.jta:narayana-jta
    org.jboss:jboss-transaction-spi
  9. Add the following line to the <host> element in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml file after the last Valve definition:

    <Valve className="org.kie.integration.tomcat.JACCValve" />
  10. Open the JWS_HOME/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml file in a text editor.
  11. Add users and roles to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml file. In the following example, <ROLE_NAME> is a role supported by Red Hat Decision Manager. <USER_NAME> and <USER_PWD> are the user name and password of your choice:

    <role rolename="<ROLE_NAME>"/>
    <user username="<USER_NAME>" password="<USER_PWD>" roles="<ROLE_NAME>"/>

    If a user has more than one role, as shown in the following example, separate the roles with a comma:

    <role rolename="admin"/>
    <role rolename="kie-server"/>
    <user username="rhdmUser" password="user1234" roles="admin,kie-server"/>
  12. Complete one of the following steps in the JWS_HOME/tomcat/bin directory:

    • On Linux or UNIX, create the setenv.sh file with the following content:

      CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m
       -Dorg.jboss.logging.provider=jdk
       -Dorg.jbpm.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.jbpm.ui.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.jbpm.case.server.ext.disabled=true"
    • On Windows, add the following content to the setenv.bat file:

      set CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Dorg.jboss.logging.provider=jdk -Dorg.jbpm.server.ext.disabled=true -Dorg.jbpm.ui.server.ext.disabled=true -Dorg.jbpm.case.server.ext.disabled=true

Chapter 5. Verifying the Decision Server installation

Verify that Decision Server is installed correctly.

Prerequisites

  • Decision Server is installed and configured.

    1. To start Red Hat JBoss Web Server, enter one of the following commands in the JWS_HOME/tomcat/bin directory:

      • On Linux or UNIX-based systems:

        $ ./startup.sh
      • On Windows:

        startup.bat
    2. After a few minutes, review the files in the JWS_HOME/tomcat/logs directory and correct any errors.
    3. To verify that Decision Server is working on Red Hat JBoss Web Server, enter the following command:

      curl -X GET "http://localhost:8080/kie-server/services/rest/server" -H  "accept: application/xml" -u '<USER_NAME>:<USER_PWD>'

      In this command, replace <USER_NAME> and <USER_PWD> with the values in the tomcat-users.xml file.

      The output of this command provides information about the Decision Server instance.

Chapter 6. Downloading and installing the headless Decision Manager controller

You can configure Decision Server to run in managed or unmanaged mode. If Decision Server is unmanaged, you must manually create and maintain KIE containers (deployment units). If Decision Server is managed, the Decision Manager controller manages the Decision Server configuration and you interact with the Decision Manager controller to create and maintain KIE containers.

The Decision Manager controller is integrated with Decision Central. If you install Decision Central, use the Execution Server page to create and maintain KIE containers. However, if you do not install Decision Central, you can install the headless Decision Manager controller and use the REST API or the Decision Server Java Client API to interact with it.

Prerequisites

  • A Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0.1 or higher server installation is available. The base directory of the Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation is referred to as JWS_HOME.
  • Sufficient user permissions to complete the installation are granted.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Software Downloads page in the Red Hat Customer Portal (login required), and select the product and version from the drop-down options:

    • Product: Decision Manager
    • Version: 7.2
  2. Download Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2.0 Add Ons (the rhdm-7.2.0-add-ons.zip file).
  3. Unzip the rhdm-7.2.0-add-ons.zip file. The rhdm-7.2-controller-jws.zip file is in the unzipped directory.
  4. Extract the rhdm-7.2-controller-jws.zip archive to a temporary directory. In the following examples this directory is called TEMP_DIR.
  5. Copy the TEMP_DIR/rhdm-7.2-controller-jws.zip/controller.war directory to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/webapps directory.

    Note

    Ensure the names of the Red Hat Decision Manager deployments you are copying do not conflict with your existing deployments in the Red Hat JBoss Web Server instance.

  6. Remove the .war extensions from the controller.war folder.
  7. Copy the contents of the TEMP_DIR/rhdm-7.2-controller-jws/SecurityPolicy/ directory to JWS_HOME/bin. When asked to overwrite files, select Yes.
  8. Add the kie-server role and user to the JWS_HOME/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml file. In the following example, <USERNAME> and <PASSWORD> are the user name and password of your choice:

    <role rolename="kie-server"/>
    <user username="<USER_NAME>" password="<PASSWORD>" roles="kie-server"/>
  9. Complete one of the following tasks in the JWS_HOME/tomcat/bin directory of the instance running Decision Server:

    • On Linux or UNIX, create the setenv.sh file with the following content:

      CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m
       -Dorg.jbpm.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.jbpm.ui.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.jbpm.case.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.kie.server.controller.user=<CONTROLLER_USER>
       -Dorg.kie.server.controller.pwd=<CONTROLLER_PWD>
       -Dorg.kie.server.id=<KIE_SERVER_ID>
       -Dorg.kie.server.location=http://<HOST>:<PORT>/kie-server/services/rest/server
       -Dorg.kie.server.controller=http://<HOST>:<PORT>/controller/rest/controller"
    • On Windows, add the following content to the setenv.bat file:

      set CATALINA_OPTS= -Xmx1024m
       -Dorg.jbpm.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.jbpm.ui.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.jbpm.case.server.ext.disabled=true
       -Dorg.kie.server.controller.user=<CONTROLLER_USER>
       -Dorg.kie.server.controller.pwd=<CONTROLLER_PWD>
       -Dorg.kie.server.id=<KIE_SERVER_ID>
       -Dorg.kie.server.location=http://<HOST>:<PORT>/kie-server/services/rest/server
       -Dorg.kie.server.controller=http://<HOST>:<PORT>/controller/rest/controller
  10. In the JWS_HOME/tomcat/bin directory of the instance running the headless Decision Manager controller, create a readable setenv.sh file with the following content:

    CATALINA_OPTS="-Dorg.kie.server.user=<USERNAME> -Dorg.kie.server.pwd=<USER_PWD>"

  11. To start the headless Decision Manager controller, enter one of the following commands in the JWS_HOME/tomcat/bin directory:

    • On Linux or UNIX-based systems:

      $ ./startup.sh
    • On Windows:

      startup.bat
  12. After a few minutes, review the JWS_HOME/tomcat/logs directory and correct any errors.
  13. To verify that the headless Decision Manager controller is working on Red Hat JBoss Web Server, enter the following command. In this command, replace <CONTROLLER> and <CONTROLLER_PWD> with the values in the tomcat-users.xml file. The output of this command provides information about the Decision Server instance.

    curl -X GET "http://<HOST>:<PORT>/controller/rest/controller/management/servers" -H  "accept: application/xml" -u '<CONTROLLER>:<CONTROLLER_PWD>'
Note

Alternatively, you can use the Decision Server Java API Client to access the headless Decision Manager controller.

Chapter 7. Running standalone Decision Central

You can use the Decision Central standalone JAR file to run Decision Central without needing to deploy it to an application server such as Red Hat JBoss EAP.

Note

Red Hat supports this installation type only when it is installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Software Downloads page in the Red Hat Customer Portal (login required), and select the product and version from the drop-down options:

    • Product: Decision Manager
    • Version: 7.2
  2. Download Red Hat Decision Manager 7.2 Decision Central Standalone (rhdm-7.2.0-decision-central-standalone.jar).
  3. Create a directory and move the rhdm-7.2.0-decision-central-standalone.jar file to this directory.
  4. In a terminal window, navigate to the directory that contains the standalone JAR file.
  5. Create the application-users.properties file. Include an administrative user and if this Decision Central instance will be a Decision Manager controller for Decision Server, include a Decision Manager controller user, for example:

    rhdmAdmin=password1
    controllerUser=controllerUser1234
  6. Create the application-roles.properties file to assign roles to the users that you included in the application-users.properties file, for example:

    rhdmAdmin=admin
    controllerUser=kie-server
  7. Create the application-config.yaml configuration file with the following contents, where <APPLICATION_USERS> is the path to the application-users.properties file and <APPLICATION_ROLES> is the path to the application-roles.properties file:

    swarm:
      management:
        security-realms:
          ApplicationRealm:
            local-authentication:
              default-user: local
              allowed-users: local
              skip-group-loading: true
            properties-authentication:
              path: <APPLICATION_USERS>
              plain-text: true
            properties-authorization:
              path: <APPLICATION_ROLES>
    datasource:
      management:
        wildfly:
          admin: admin
  8. Enter the following command:

    java -jar rhdm-7.2.0-decision-central-standalone.jar -s application-config.yaml

    In addition, you can set any properties supported by Decision Central by including the -D<property>=<value> parameter in this command, for example:

    java -jar rhdm-7.2.0-decision-central-standalone.jar -s application-config.yaml -D<property>=<value> -D<property>=<value>

    See Section 7.1, “Supported properties” for more information.

7.1. Supported properties

The Decision Central system properties listed in this section are passed to standalone*.xml files or when you install standalone Decision Central, you can use the properties listed in this section in the following command:

java -jar rhdm-7.2.0-decision-central-standalone.jar -s application-config.yaml -D<property>=<value> -D<property>=<value>

In this command, <property> is a property from the following list and <value> is a value that you assign to that property:

  • org.uberfire.nio.git.dir: Location of the Decision Server Git directory.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.dirname: Name of the Decision Server Git directory. Default value: .niogit.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.proxy.ssh.over.http: Specifies whether SSH should use an HTTP proxy. Default: false
  • http.proxyHost: Defines the host name of the HTTP proxy. Default: null
  • http.proxyPort: Defines the host port (integer value) of the HTTP proxy. Default: null
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.proxy.ssh.over.https: Specifies whether SSH should use an HTTPS proxy. Default: false
  • https.proxyHost: Defines the host name of the HTTPS proxy. Default: null
  • https.proxyPort: Defines the host port (integer value) of the HTTPS proxy. Default: null
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.daemon.enabled: Enables or disables the Git daemon. Default value: true.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.daemon.host: If the Git daemon is enabled, it uses this property as the local host identifier. Default value: localhost.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.daemon.port: If the Git daemon is enabled, it uses this property as the port number. Default value: 9418.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.http.sslVerify: Enables or disables SSL certificate checking for Git repositories. Default: true

    Note

    If the default or assigned port is already in use, a new port is automatically selected. Ensure that the ports are available and check the log for more information.

  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.enabled: Enables or disables the SSH daemon. Default value: true.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.host: If the SSH daemon enabled, it uses this property as the local host identifier. Default value: localhost.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.port: If the SSH daemon is enabled, it uses this property as the port number. Default value: 8001.

    Note

    If the default or assigned port is already in use, a new port is automatically selected. Ensure that the ports are available and check the log for more information.

  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.cert.dir: Location of the .security directory where local certificates are stored. Default: the working directory.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.passphrase: Pass phrase used to access the public key store of your operating system when cloning git repositories with SCP style URLs. Example: git@github.com:user/repository.git.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.algorithm: Algorithm used by SSH. Default value: RSA.

    Note

    If you plan to use RSA or any algorithm other than DSA, make sure you set up your application server to use the Bouncy Castle JCE library.

  • org.uberfire.metadata.index.dir: Place where the Lucene .index directory is stored. Default: the working directory
  • org.uberfire.ldap.regex.role_mapper: Regex pattern used to map LDAP principal names to the application role name. Note that the variable role must be part of the pattern because it is substituted by the application role name when matching a principal value to a role name. Default: Not used.
  • org.uberfire.sys.repo.monitor.disabled: Disables the configuration monitor. Do not disable unless you are sure. Default value: false
  • org.uberfire.secure.key: Password used by password encryption. Default value: org.uberfire.admin
  • org.uberfire.secure.alg: Crypto algorithm used by password encryption. Default value: PBEWithMD5AndDES
  • org.uberfire.domain: Security-domain name used by uberfire. Default value: ApplicationRealm
  • org.guvnor.m2repo.dir: Place where the Maven repository folder is stored. Default value: <working-directory>/repositories/kie
  • org.guvnor.project.gav.check.disabled: Disables group ID, artifact ID, and version (GAV) checks. Default value: false
  • org.kie.build.disable-project-explorer: Disables automatic build of a selected project in Project Explorer. Default value: false
  • org.kie.verification.disable-dtable-realtime-verification: Disables the real-time validation and verification of decision tables. Default value: false
  • org.kie.server.controller: URL for connecting with a Decision Manager controller, for example: ws://localhost:8080/decision-central/websocket/controller
  • org.kie.server.user: User name used to connect with the Decision Server nodes from the Decision Manager controller. This property is only required when using this Decision Central installation as a Decision Manager controller.
  • org.kie.server.pwd: Password used to connect with the Decision Server nodes from the Decision Manager controller. This property is only required when using this Decision Central installation as a Decision Manager controller.
  • kie.maven.offline.force: Forces Maven to behave as offline. If true, disable online dependency resolution. Default: false.

    Note

    Use this property for Decision Central only. If you share a runtime environment with any other component, isolate the configuration and apply it only to Decision Central.

  • org.uberfire.gzip.enable: Enables or disables Gzip compression on GzipFilter. Default: true
  • designerdataobjects: Disables the data object functionality. Set the value of this parameter to false.

Chapter 8. Maven settings and repositories for Red Hat Decision Manager

You can use an external Maven repository to deploy a project. When you create a project, Decision Central uses the Maven repositories that are configured for Decision Central. You can use the Maven global or user settings to direct all Red Hat Decision Manager projects to retrieve dependencies from the public Red Hat Decision Manager repository by modifying the following files:

  • The Maven settings.xml file.
  • The Maven project object model (POM) file (pom.xml).

For more information, see Packaging and deploying a Red Hat Decision Manager project.

8.1. Configuring Maven using the project configuration file (pom.xml)

To use Maven for building and managing your Red Hat Decision Manager projects, you must create and configure the POM file (pom.xml). This file holds configuration information for your project. For more information, see Apache Maven Project.

Procedure

  1. Generate a Maven project. A pom.xml file is automatically generated when you create a Maven project.
  2. Edit the pom.xml file to add more dependencies and new repositories.

    Maven downloads all of the JAR files and the dependent JAR files from the Maven repository when you compile and package your project.

Find the schema for the pom.xml file at http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd. For more information about POM files, see Apache Maven Project POM.

8.2. Modifying the Maven settings file

Red Hat Decision Manager uses Maven settings.xml file to configure it’s Maven execution. You must create and activate a profile in the settings.xml file and declare the Maven repositories used by your Red Hat Decision Manager projects.

Procedure

  1. In the settings.xml file, declare the repositories that your Red Hat Decision Manager projects use. Usually, this is either the online Red Hat Decision Manager Maven repository or the Red Hat Decision Manager Maven repository that you download from the Red Hat Customer Portal and any repositories for custom artifacts that you want to use.
  2. Ensure that Decision Central or Decision Server is configured to use the settings.xml file, for example by specifying the kie.maven.settings.custom=<path_to_settings.xml> property.

For information about the Maven settings.xml file, see the Apache Maven Project Setting Reference.

8.3. Adding Maven dependencies for Red Hat Decision Manager

To use the correct Maven dependencies in your Red Hat Decision Manager project, add the Red Hat Business Automation bill of materials (BOM) files to the project’s pom.xml file. The Red Hat Business Automation BOM applies to both Red Hat Decision Manager and Red Hat Process Automation Manager. When you add the BOM files, the correct versions of transitive dependencies from the provided Maven repositories are included in the project.

For more information about the Red Hat Business Automation BOM, see What is the mapping between Red Hat Decision Manager and the Maven library version?.

Procedure

  1. Declare the Red Hat Business Automation BOM in the pom.xml file:

    <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
      <dependency>
       <groupId>com.redhat.ba</groupId>
       <artifactId>ba-platform-bom</artifactId>
       <version>7.2.0.GA-redhat-00002</version>
       <type>pom</type>
       <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>
     </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
    <!-- Your dependencies -->
    </dependencies>
  2. Declare dependencies required for your project in the <dependencies> tag. After you import the product BOM into your project, the versions of the user-facing product dependencies are defined so you do not need to specify the <version> sub-element of these <dependency> elements. However, you must use the <dependency> element to declare dependencies which you want to use in your project.
  3. For standalone projects that are not authored in Decision Central, specify all dependencies required for your projects. In projects that you author in Decision Central, the basic decision engine dependencies are provided automatically by Decision Central.

    • For a basic Red Hat Decision Manager project, declare the following dependencies, depending on the features that you want to use:
    • For a basic Red Hat Decision Manager project, declare the following dependencies:

      Embedded decision engine dependencies

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-compiler</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependency for persistence support. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-persistence-jpa</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependencies for decision tables, templates, and scorecards.
      For other assets, declare org.drools:drools-workbench-models-* dependencies. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-decisiontables</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-templates</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-scorecards</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependency for loading KJARs from a Maven repository using KieScanner. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.kie</groupId>
        <artifactId>kie-ci</artifactId>
      </dependency>

    • To use the Decision Server, declare the following dependencies:

      Client application Decision Server dependencies

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.kie.server</groupId>
        <artifactId>kie-server-client</artifactId>
      </dependency>

    • To create a remote client for Red Hat Decision Manager, declare the following dependency:

      Client dependency

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.uberfire</groupId>
      </dependency>

    • When creating a JAR file that includes assets, such as rules and process definitions, specify the packaging type for your Maven project as kjar and use org.kie:kie-maven-plugin to process the kjar packaging type located under the <project> element. In the following example, ${kie.version} is the Maven library version listed in What is the mapping between Red Hat Decision Manager and the Maven library version?:

      <packaging>kjar</packaging>
      <build>
       <plugins>
        <plugin>
         <groupId>org.kie</groupId>
         <artifactId>kie-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>${kie.version}</version>
         <extensions>true</extensions>
        </plugin>
       </plugins>
      </build>

Chapter 9. Importing projects from Git repositories

Git is a distributed version control system. It implements revisions as commit objects. When you save your changes to a repository, a new commit object in the Git repository is created.

Decision Central uses Git to store project data, including assets such as rules and processes. When you create a project in Decision Central, it is added to a Git repository that is embedded in Decision Central. If you have projects in other Git repositories, you can import those projects into the Decision Central Git repository through Decision Central spaces.

Prerequisites

  • Red Hat Decision Manager projects exist in an external Git repository.
  • Credentials required for read access to that external Git repository are available.

Procedure

  1. In Decision Central, click MenuDesignProjects.
  2. Select or create the space into which you want to import the projects. The default space is mySpace.
  3. Click the three vertical dots on the right side of the screen and select Import Project.
  4. In the Import Project window, enter the URL and credentials for the Git repository that contains the projects that you want to import and click Import. The projects are added to the Decision Central Git repository and are available from the current space.

Chapter 10. Integrating LDAP and SSL

With Red Hat Decision Manager you can integrate LDAP and SSL through RH-SSO. For more information, see the Red Hat Single Sign-On Server Administration Guide.

Appendix A. Versioning information

Documentation last updated on Tuesday, May 28, 2019.

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