Chapter 3. Environment with immutable servers

You can deploy an environment that includes one or more pods running immutable Process Server with preloaded services. The database servers are, by default, also run in pods. Each Process Server pod can be separately scaled as necessary.

On an immutable Process Server, any services must be loaded onto the server at the time the image is created. You cannot deploy or undeploy services on a running immutable Process Server. The advantage of this approach is that the Process Server with the services in it runs like any other containerized service and does not require specialized management. The Process Server runs like any other pod on the OpenShift environment; you can use any container-based integration workflows as necessary.

When you create a Process Server image, you can build your services using S2I (Source to Image). Provide a Git repository with the source of your services and other business assets; if you develop the services or assets in Business Central, copy the source into a separate repository for the S2I build. OpenShift automatically builds the source, installs the services into the Process Server image, and starts the containers with the services.

If you are using Business Central for authoring services, you can extract the source for your process and place it into a separate Git repository (such as GitHub or an on-premise installation of GitLab) for use in the S2I build.

Alternatively, you can create a similar Process Server deployment using services that are already built as KJAR files. In this case, you must provide the services in a Maven repository. You can use the built-in repository of the Business Central or your own repository (for example, a Nexus deployment). When the server pod starts, it retrieves the KJAR services from the Maven repository. Services on the pod are never updated or changed. At every restart or scaling of the pod, the server retrieves the files from the repository, so you must ensure they do not change on the Maven repository to keep the deployment immutable.

With both methods of creating immutable images, no further management of the image is required. If you want to use a new version of a service, you can build a new image.

Optionally, you can also deploy a pod with Business Central Monitoring and a pod with Smart Router.

You can use Business Central Monitoring to start and stop (but not deploy) services on your Process Servers and to view monitoring data. The Business Central Monitoring instance can automatically discover any Process Servers in the same namespace, including immutable Process Servers and managed Process Servers. This feature requires the OpenShiftStartupStrategy setting, which is enabled for all Process Servers except those deployed in a fixed managed infrastructure. For instructions about deploying managed Process Servers with the OpenShiftStartupStrategy setting enabled, see Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager freeform managed server environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Smart Router is a single endpoint that can receive calls from client applications to any of your services and route each call automatically to the server that runs the service.

If you want to use Business Central Monitoring, you must provide a Maven repository. Your integration process must ensure that all the versions of KJAR files built into any Process Server image are also available in the Maven repository.

3.1. Deploying Business Central Monitoring and Smart Router for an environment with immutable servers

You can deploy Business Central Monitoring and Smart Router for an environment with immutable servers.

You can use Business Central Monitoring to start and stop (but not deploy) services on your Process Servers and to view monitoring data. The Business Central Monitoring automatically discovers any Process Servers in the same namespace, including immutable Process Servers and managed Process Servers. This feature requires the OpenShiftStartupStrategy setting, which is enabled by default for all Process Servers except those deployed in a fixed managed infrastructure. For instructions about deploying managed Process Servers with the OpenShiftStartupStrategy setting enabled, see Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager freeform managed server environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Smart Router is a single endpoint that can receive calls from client applications to any of your services and route each call automatically to the server that runs the service.

If you want to use Business Central Monitoring, you must provide a Maven repository. Your integration process must ensure that all the versions of KJAR files built into any Process Server image are also available in the Maven repository.

3.1.1. Starting configuration of the template for monitoring and Smart Router

To deploy monitoring and Smart Router for an environment with immutable servers, use the rhpam76-immutable-monitor.yaml template file.

Procedure

  1. Download the rhpam-7.6.0-openshift-templates.zip product deliverable file from the Software Downloads page of the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  2. Extract the rhpam76-immutable-monitor.yaml template file.

  3. Use one of the following methods to start deploying the template:

    • To use the OpenShift Web UI, in the OpenShift application console select Add to Project → Import YAML / JSON and then select or paste the rhpam76-immutable-monitor.yaml file. In the Add Template window, ensure Process the template is selected and click Continue.

    • To use the OpenShift command line console, prepare the following command line: 

      oc new-app -f <template-path>/rhpam76-immutable-monitor.yaml -p BUSINESS_CENTRAL_HTTPS_SECRET=businesscentral-app-secret -p PARAMETER=value

      In this command line, make the following changes:

      • Replace <template-path> with the path to the downloaded template file.
      • Use as many -p PARAMETER=value pairs as needed to set the required parameters.

Next steps

Set the parameters for the template. Follow the steps in Section 3.1.2, “Setting required parameters for monitoring and Smart Router” to set common parameters. You can view the template file to see descriptions for all parameters.

3.1.2. Setting required parameters for monitoring and Smart Router

When configuring the template to deploy monitoring and Smart Router for an environment with immutable servers, you must set the following parameters in all cases.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • Business Central Monitoring Server Keystore Secret Name (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_HTTPS_SECRET): The name of the secret for Business Central, as created in Section 2.3, “Creating the secrets for Business Central”.
    • Smart Router Keystore Secret Name (KIE_SERVER_ROUTER_HTTPS_SECRET): The name of the secret for Smart Router, as created in Section 2.4, “Creating the secrets for Smart Router”.
    • Business Central Monitoring Server Certificate Name (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_HTTPS_NAME): The name of the certificate in the keystore that you created in Section 2.3, “Creating the secrets for Business Central”.
    • Business Central Monitoring Server Keystore Password (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_HTTPS_PASSWORD): The password for the keystore that you created in Section 2.3, “Creating the secrets for Business Central”.
    • Smart Router Certificate Name (KIE_SERVER_ROUTER_HTTPS_NAME): The name of the certificate in the keystore that you created in Section 2.4, “Creating the secrets for Smart Router”.
    • Smart Router Keystore Password (KIE_SERVER_ROUTER_HTTPS_PASSWORD): The password for the keystore that you created in Section 2.4, “Creating the secrets for Smart Router”.
    • Application Name (APPLICATION_NAME): The name of the OpenShift application. It is used in the default URLs for Business Central Monitoring and Process Server. OpenShift uses the application name to create a separate set of deployment configurations, services, routes, labels, and artifacts.
    • Enable KIE server global discovery (KIE_SERVER_CONTROLLER_OPENSHIFT_GLOBAL_DISCOVERY_ENABLED): Set this parameter to true if you want Business Central Monitoring to discover all Process Servers with the OpenShiftStartupStrategy in the same namespace. By default, Business Central Monitoring discovers only Process Servers that are deployed with the same value of the APPLICATION_NAME parameter as Business Central Monitoring itself.
    • Maven repository URL (MAVEN_REPO_URL): A URL for a Maven repository. You must upload all the processes (KJAR files) that are to be deployed on any Process Servers in your environment into this repository.
    • Maven repository ID (MAVEN_REPO_ID): An identifier for the Maven repository. The default value is repo-custom.
    • Maven repository username (MAVEN_REPO_USERNAME): The user name for the Maven repository.
    • Maven repository password (MAVEN_REPO_PASSWORD): The password for the Maven repository.
    • ImageStream Namespace (IMAGE_STREAM_NAMESPACE): The namespace where the image streams are available. If the image streams were already available in your OpenShift environment (see Section 2.1, “Ensuring the availability of image streams and the image registry”), the namespace is openshift. If you have installed the image streams file, the namespace is the name of the OpenShift project.

  2. You can set the following user names and passwords. By default, the deployment automatically generates the passwords.

    • KIE Admin User (KIE_ADMIN_USER) and KIE Admin Password (KIE_ADMIN_PWD): The user name and password for the administrative user. If you want to use the Business Central Monitoring to control or monitor any Process Servers , you must set and record the user name and password.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.1.6, “Completing deployment of the template for monitoring and Smart Router”.

3.1.3. Configuring the image stream namespace for monitoring and Smart Router

If you created image streams in a namespace that is not openshift, you must configure the namespace in the template.

If all image streams were already available in your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment, you can skip this procedure.

Prerequisites

Procedure

If you installed an image streams file according to instructions in Section 2.1, “Ensuring the availability of image streams and the image registry”, set the ImageStream Namespace (IMAGE_STREAM_NAMESPACE) parameter to the name of your OpenShift project.

3.1.4. Setting parameters for RH-SSO authentication for monitoring and Smart Router

If you want to use RH-SSO authentication, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy monitoring and Smart Router for an environment with immutable servers.

Important

Do not configure LDAP authentication and RH-SSO authentication in the same deployment.

Prerequisites

  • A realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager is created in the RH-SSO authentication system.

  • User names and passwords for Red Hat Process Automation Manager are created in the RH-SSO authentication system. For a list of the available roles, see Chapter 4, Red Hat Process Automation Manager roles and users. The following users are required in order to set the parameters for the environment:

    • An administrative user with the kie-server,rest-all,admin roles. This user can administer and use the environment. Process Servers use this user to authenticate with Business Central Monitoring.
    • A server user with the kie-server,rest-all,user roles. This user can make REST API calls to the Process Server. Business Central Monitoring uses this user to authenticate with Process Servers.
  • Clients are created in the RH-SSO authentication system for all components of the Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment that you are deploying. The client setup contains the URLs for the components. You can review and edit the URLs after deploying the environment. Alternatively, the Red Hat Process Automation Manager deployment can create the clients. However, this option provides less detailed control over the environment.
  • You started the configuration of the template, as described in Section 3.1.1, “Starting configuration of the template for monitoring and Smart Router”.

Procedure

  1. Set the KIE_ADMIN_USER and KIE_ADMIN_PASSWORD parameters of the template to the user name and password of the administrative user that you created in the RH-SSO authentication system.
  2. Set the KIE_SERVER_USER and KIE_SERVER_PASSWORD parameters of the template to the user name and password of the server user that you created in the RH-SSO authentication system.

  3. Set the following parameters:

    • RH-SSO URL (SSO_URL): The URL for RH-SSO.
    • RH-SSO Realm name (SSO_REALM): The RH-SSO realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager.
    • RH-SSO Disable SSL Certificate Validation (SSO_DISABLE_SSL_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION): Set to true if your RH-SSO installation does not use a valid HTTPS certificate.

  4. Complete one of the following procedures:

    1. If you created the client for Red Hat Process Automation Manager within RH-SSO, set the following parameters in the template:

      • Business Central Monitoring RH-SSO Client name (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SSO_CLIENT): The RH-SSO client name for Business Central Monitoring.
      • Business Central Monitoring RH-SSO Client Secret (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SSO_SECRET): The secret string that is set in RH-SSO for the client for Business Central Monitoring.

    2. To create the clients for Red Hat Process Automation Manager within RH-SSO, set the following parameters in the template:

      • Business Central Monitoring RH-SSO Client name (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SSO_CLIENT): The name of the client to create in RH-SSO for Business Central Monitoring.
      • Business Central Monitoring RH-SSO Client Secret (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SSO_SECRET): The secret string to set in RH-SSO for the client for Business Central Monitoring.
      • RH-SSO Realm Admin Username (SSO_USERNAME) and RH-SSO Realm Admin Password (SSO_PASSWORD): The user name and password for the realm administrator user for the RH-SSO realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager. You must provide this user name and password in order to create the required clients.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.1.6, “Completing deployment of the template for monitoring and Smart Router”.

After completing the deployment, review the URLs for components of Red Hat Process Automation Manager in the RH-SSO authentication system to ensure they are correct.

3.1.5. Setting parameters for LDAP authentication for monitoring and Smart Router

If you want to use LDAP authentication, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy monitoring and Smart Router for an environment with immutable servers.

Important

Do not configure LDAP authentication and RH-SSO authentication in the same deployment.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In the LDAP service, create all user names in the deployment parameters. If you do not set any of the parameters, create users with the default user names. The created users must also be assigned to roles:

    • KIE_ADMIN_USER: default user name adminUser, roles: kie-server,rest-all,admin

      For the user roles that you can configure in LDAP, see Roles and users.

  2. Set the AUTH_LDAP* parameters of the template. These parameters correspond to the settings of the LdapExtended Login module of Red Hat JBoss EAP. For instructions about using these settings, see LdapExtended login module.

    If the LDAP server does not define all the roles required for your deployment, you can map LDAP groups to Red Hat Process Automation Manager roles. To enable LDAP role mapping, set the following parameters:

    • RoleMapping rolesProperties file path (AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_ROLES_PROPERTIES): The fully qualified path name of a file that defines role mapping, for example, /opt/eap/standalone/configuration/rolemapping/rolemapping.properties. You must provide this file and mount it at this path in all applicable deployment configurations; for instructions, see Section 3.5, “(Optional) Providing the LDAP role mapping file”.
    • RoleMapping replaceRole property (AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_REPLACE_ROLE): If set to true, mapped roles replace the roles defined on the LDAP server; if set to false, both mapped roles and roles defined on the LDAP server are set as user application roles. The default setting is false.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.1.6, “Completing deployment of the template for monitoring and Smart Router”.

3.1.6. Completing deployment of the template for monitoring and Smart Router

After setting all the required parameters in the OpenShift Web UI or in the command line, complete deployment of the template.

Procedure

Depending on the method that you are using, complete the following steps:

  • In the OpenShift Web UI, click Create.

    • If the This will create resources that may have security or project behavior implications message appears, click Create Anyway.
  • Complete the command line and press Enter.

3.2. Deploying an immutable Process Server using an S2I build

You can deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build. When you deploy the server, the deployment procedure retrieves the source code for any services that must run on this server, builds the services, and includes them in the server image.

You cannot deploy or undeploy services on a running immutable Process Server. You can use Business Central or Business Central Monitoring to view monitoring information. The Process Server runs like any other pod on the OpenShift environment; you can use any container-based integration workflows as necessary.

You can enable JMS capabilities of the immutable Process Server. With JMS capabilities you can interact with the server through JMS API using an external AMQ message broker.

By default, this server uses a PostgreSQL database server in a pod. To use a MySQL database server in a pod or an external database server, you can modify the template.

If a Business Central or Business Central Monitoring is deployed in the same namespace, it discovers the immutable Process Server automatically. You can use Business Central or Business Central Monitoring to start and stop (but not deploy) services on the immutable Process Server and to view monitoring data.

3.2.1. Starting configuration of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I

To deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build, use the rhpam76-prod-immutable-kieserver-amq.yaml template file if you want to enable JMS capabilities. Otherwise, use the rhpam76-prod-immutable-kieserver.yaml template file.

Procedure

  1. Download the rhpam-7.6.0-openshift-templates.zip product deliverable file from the Software Downloads page of the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  2. Extract the required template file.
  3. By default, the template includes two Process Servers. Each of the serves uses a PostgreSQL database server in a pod. To change the number of Process Servers or to use a MySQL database server in a pod or an external database server, modify the template as described in Section 3.3, “Modifying the template for deploying an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

  4. Use one of the following methods to start deploying the template:

    • To use the OpenShift Web UI, in the OpenShift application console select Add to Project → Import YAML / JSON and then select or paste the <template-file-name>.yaml file. In the Add Template window, ensure Process the template is selected and click Continue.

    • To use the OpenShift command line console, prepare the following command line: 

      oc new-app -f <template-path>/<template-file-name>.yaml -p KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_SECRET=kieserver-app-secret -p PARAMETER=value

      In this command line, make the following changes:

      • Replace <template-path> with the path to the downloaded template file.
      • Replace <template-file-name> with the name of the template file.
      • Use as many -p PARAMETER=value pairs as needed to set the required parameters.

Next steps

Set the parameters for the template. Follow the steps in Section 3.2.2, “Setting required parameters for an immutable Process Server using S2I” to set common parameters. You can view the template file to see descriptions for all parameters.

3.2.2. Setting required parameters for an immutable Process Server using S2I

When configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build, you must set the following parameters in all cases.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • KIE Server Keystore Secret Name (KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_SECRET): The name of the secret for Process Server, as created in Section 2.2, “Creating the secrets for Process Server”.
    • KIE Server Certificate Name (KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_NAME): The name of the certificate in the keystore that you created in Section 2.2, “Creating the secrets for Process Server”.
    • KIE Server Keystore Password (KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_PASSWORD): The password for the keystore that you created in Section 2.2, “Creating the secrets for Process Server”.
    • Application Name (APPLICATION_NAME): The name of the OpenShift application. It is used in the default URLs for Business Central Monitoring and Process Server. OpenShift uses the application name to create a separate set of deployment configurations, services, routes, labels, and artifacts. You can deploy several applications using the same template into the same project, as long as you use different application names. Also, the application name determines the name of the server configuration (server template) that the Process Server joins on Business Central or Business Central Monitoring. If you are deploying several Process Servers, you must ensure each of the servers has a different application name.

    • KIE Server Container Deployment (KIE_SERVER_CONTAINER_DEPLOYMENT): The identifying information of the decision service (KJAR file) that the deployment must pull from the local or external repository after building your source. The format is <containerId>=<groupId>:<artifactId>:<version> or, if you want to specify an alias name for the container, <containerId>(<aliasId>)=<groupId>:<artifactId>:<version>. You can provide two or more KJAR files using the | separator, as illustrated in the following example: 

      containerId=groupId:artifactId:version|c2(alias2)=g2:a2:v2

      To avoid duplicate container IDs, the artifact ID must be unique for each artifact built or used in your project.

    • Git Repository URL (SOURCE_REPOSITORY_URL): The URL for the Git repository that contains the source for your services.
    • Git Reference (SOURCE_REPOSITORY_REF): The branch in the Git repository.
    • Context Directory (CONTEXT_DIR): The path to the source within the project downloaded from the Git repository.
    • Artifact Directory (ARTIFACT_DIR): The path within the project that contains the required binary files (KJAR files and any other necessary files) after a successful Maven build. Normally this directory is the target directory of the build. However, you can provide prebuilt binaries in this directory in the Git repository.
    • ImageStream Namespace (IMAGE_STREAM_NAMESPACE): The namespace where the image streams are available. If the image streams were already available in your OpenShift environment (see Section 2.1, “Ensuring the availability of image streams and the image registry”), the namespace is openshift. If you have installed the image streams file, the namespace is the name of the OpenShift project.

  2. You can set the following user name and password. By default, the deployment automatically generates the password.

    • KIE Server User (KIE_SERVER_USER) and KIE Server Password (KIE_SERVER_PWD): The user name and password that a client application can use to connect to any of the Process Servers.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.3. Configuring the image stream namespace for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you created image streams in a namespace that is not openshift, you must configure the namespace in the template.

If all image streams were already available in your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment, you can skip this procedure.

Prerequisites

Procedure

If you installed an image streams file according to instructions in Section 2.1, “Ensuring the availability of image streams and the image registry”, set the ImageStream Namespace (IMAGE_STREAM_NAMESPACE) parameter to the name of your OpenShift project.

3.2.4. Configuring information about a Business Central or Business Central Monitoring instance for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you want to enable a connection from a Business Central or Business Central Monitoring instance in the same namespace to the Process Server, you must configure information about the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring instance.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • KIE Admin User (KIE_ADMIN_USER) and KIE Admin Password (KIE_ADMIN_PWD): The user name and password for the administrative user. These values must be the same as the KIE_ADMIN_USER and KIE_ADMIN_PWD settings for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring. If the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring uses RH-SSO or LDAP authentication, these values must be a user name and password configured in the authentication system with an administrator role for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring.
    • Name of the Business Central service (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SERVICE): The OpenShift service name for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.5. Setting an optional Maven repository for an immutable Process Server using S2I

When configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build, if your source build includes dependencies that are not available on the public Maven tree and require a separate custom Maven repository, you must set parameters to access the repository.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To configure access to a custom Maven repository, set the following parameters:

  • Maven repository URL (MAVEN_REPO_URL): The URL for the Maven repository.
  • Maven repository ID (MAVEN_REPO_ID): An identifier for the Maven repository. The default value is repo-custom.
  • Maven repository username (MAVEN_REPO_USERNAME): The user name for the Maven repository.
  • Maven repository password (MAVEN_REPO_PASSWORD): The password for the Maven repository.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.6. Configuring access to a Maven mirror in an environment without a connection to the public Internet for an immutable Process Server using S2I

When configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build, if your OpenShift environment does not have a connection to the public Internet, you must configure access to a Maven mirror that you set up according to Section 2.8, “Preparing a Maven mirror repository for offline use”.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To configure access to the Maven mirror, set the following parameters:

  • Maven mirror URL (MAVEN_MIRROR_URL): The URL for the Maven mirror repository that you set up in Section 2.8, “Preparing a Maven mirror repository for offline use”. This URL must be accessible from a pod in your OpenShift environment.

  • Maven mirror of (MAVEN_MIRROR_OF): The value that determines which artifacts are to be retrieved from the mirror. For instructions about setting the mirrorOf value, see Mirror Settings in the Apache Maven documentation. The default value is external:*. With this value, Maven retrieves every required artifact from the mirror and does not query any other repositories.

    • If you configure an external Maven repository (MAVEN_REPO_URL), change MAVEN_MIRROR_OF to exclude the artifacts in this repository from the mirror, for example, external:*,!repo-custom. Replace repo-custom with the ID that you configured in MAVEN_REPO_ID.
    • If you configure a built-in Business Central Maven repository (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_MAVEN_SERVICE), change MAVEN_MIRROR_OF to exclude the artifacts in this repository from the mirror: external:*,!repo-rhpamcentr.
    • If you configure both repositories, change MAVEN_MIRROR_OF to exclude the artifacts in both repositories from the mirror: external:*,!repo-rhpamcentr,!repo-custom. Replace repo-custom with the ID that you configured in MAVEN_REPO_ID.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.7. Configuring communication with an AMQ server for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you use the rhpam76-prod-immutable-kieserver-amq.yaml template file, JMS capabilities of the Process Server are enabled. You can interact with the server through JMS API, using an external AMQ message broker.

If necessary for your environment, you can modify the JMS configuration.

Prerequisites

Procedure

Set any of the following parameters as required for your environment:

  • AMQ Username (AMQ_USERNAME) and AMQ Password (AMQ_PASSWORD): The user name and password of a standard broker user, if user authentication in the broker is required in your environment.
  • AMQ Role (AMQ_ROLE): The user role for the standard broker user. The default role is admin.
  • AMQ Queues (AMQ_QUEUES): AMQ queue names, separated by commas. These queues are automatically created when the broker starts and are accessible as JNDI resources in the JBoss EAP server. If you use custom queue names, you must also set the same queue names in the KIE_SERVER_JMS_QUEUE_RESPONSE, KIE_SERVER_JMS_QUEUE_REQUEST, KIE_SERVER_JMS_QUEUE_SIGNAL, KIE_SERVER_JMS_QUEUE_AUDIT, and KIE_SERVER_JMS_QUEUE_EXECUTOR parameters.
  • AMQ Global Max Size (AMQ_GLOBAL_MAX_SIZE): The maximum amount of memory that message data can consume. If no value is specified, half of the memory available in the pod is allocated.
  • AMQ Protocols (AMQ_PROTOCOL): Broker protocols that the Process Server can use to communicate with the AMQ server, separated by commas. Allowed values are openwire, amqp, stomp, and mqtt. Only openwire is supported by JBoss EAP. The default value is openwire.
  • AMQ Broker Image (AMQ_BROKER_IMAGESTREAM_NAME): The image stream name for the AMQ broker image.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.8. Setting parameters for RH-SSO authentication for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you want to use RH-SSO authentication, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build.

Important

Do not configure LDAP authentication and RH-SSO authentication in the same deployment.

Prerequisites

  • A realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager is created in the RH-SSO authentication system.
  • User names and passwords for Red Hat Process Automation Manager are created in the RH-SSO authentication system. For a list of the available roles, see Chapter 4, Red Hat Process Automation Manager roles and users. In order to set the parameters for the environment, an administrative user with the kie-server,rest-all,admin roles is required. The default user name for this user is adminUser. This user can administer and use the environment.
  • Clients are created in the RH-SSO authentication system for all components of the Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment that you are deploying. The client setup contains the URLs for the components. You can review and edit the URLs after deploying the environment. Alternatively, the Red Hat Process Automation Manager deployment can create the clients. However, this option provides less detailed control over the environment.
  • You started the configuration of the template, as described in Section 3.2.1, “Starting configuration of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

Procedure

  1. Set the KIE_ADMIN_USER and KIE_ADMIN_PASSWORD parameters of the template to the user name and password of the administrative user that you created in the RH-SSO authentication system.

  2. Set the following parameters:

    • RH-SSO URL (SSO_URL): The URL for RH-SSO.
    • RH-SSO Realm name (SSO_REALM): The RH-SSO realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager.
    • RH-SSO Disable SSL Certificate Validation (SSO_DISABLE_SSL_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION): Set to true if your RH-SSO installation does not use a valid HTTPS certificate.

  3. Complete one of the following procedures:

    1. If you created the client for Red Hat Process Automation Manager within RH-SSO, set the following parameters in the template:

      • Business Central or Business Central Monitoring RH-SSO Client name (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SSO_CLIENT): The RH-SSO client name for Business Central or Business Central Monitoring.
      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client name (KIE_SERVER_SSO_CLIENT): The RH-SSO client name for Process Server.
      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client Secret (KIE_SERVER_SSO_SECRET): The secret string that is set in RH-SSO for the client for Process Server.

    2. To create the clients for Red Hat Process Automation Manager within RH-SSO, set the following parameters in the template:

      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client name (KIE_SERVER_SSO_CLIENT): The name of the client to create in RH-SSO for Process Server.
      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client Secret (KIE_SERVER_SSO_SECRET): The secret string to set in RH-SSO for the client for Process Server.
      • RH-SSO Realm Admin Username (SSO_USERNAME) and RH-SSO Realm Admin Password (SSO_PASSWORD): The user name and password for the realm administrator user for the RH-SSO realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager. You must provide this user name and password in order to create the required clients.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

After completing the deployment, review the URLs for components of Red Hat Process Automation Manager in the RH-SSO authentication system to ensure they are correct.

3.2.9. Setting parameters for LDAP authentication for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you want to use LDAP authentication, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build.

Important

Do not configure LDAP authentication and RH-SSO authentication in the same deployment.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In the LDAP service, create all user names in the deployment parameters. If you do not set any of the parameters, create users with the default user names. The created users must also be assigned to roles:

    • KIE_ADMIN_USER: default user name adminUser, roles: kie-server,rest-all,admin

    • KIE_SERVER_USER: default user name executionUser, roles kie-server,rest-all,guest

      For the user roles that you can configure in LDAP, see Roles and users.

  2. Set the AUTH_LDAP* parameters of the template. These parameters correspond to the settings of the LdapExtended Login module of Red Hat JBoss EAP. For instructions about using these settings, see LdapExtended login module.

    If the LDAP server does not define all the roles required for your deployment, you can map LDAP groups to Red Hat Process Automation Manager roles. To enable LDAP role mapping, set the following parameters:

    • RoleMapping rolesProperties file path (AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_ROLES_PROPERTIES): The fully qualified path name of a file that defines role mapping, for example, /opt/eap/standalone/configuration/rolemapping/rolemapping.properties. You must provide this file and mount it at this path in all applicable deployment configurations; for instructions, see Section 3.5, “(Optional) Providing the LDAP role mapping file”.
    • RoleMapping replaceRole property (AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_REPLACE_ROLE): If set to true, mapped roles replace the roles defined on the LDAP server; if set to false, both mapped roles and roles defined on the LDAP server are set as user application roles. The default setting is false.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.10. Setting parameters for using an external database server for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you modified the template to use an external database server for the Process Server, as described in Section 3.3, “Modifying the template for deploying an immutable Process Server using S2I”, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server using an S2I build.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • KIE Server External Database Driver (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_DRIVER): The driver for the server, depending on the server type:

      • mysql
      • postgresql
      • mariadb
      • mssql
      • db2
      • oracle
      • sybase
    • KIE Server External Database User (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_USER) and KIE Server External Database Password (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_PWD): The user name and password for the external database server
    • KIE Server External Database URL (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_URL): The JDBC URL for the external database server

    • KIE Server External Database Dialect (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_DIALECT): The Hibernate dialect for the server, depending on the server type:

      • org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect (used for MySQL and MariaDB)
      • org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL82Dialect
      • org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServer2012Dialect (used for MS SQL)
      • org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect
      • org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect
      • org.hibernate.dialect.SybaseASE157Dialect
    • KIE Server External Database Host (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_SERVICE_HOST): The host name of the external database server
    • KIE Server External Database Port (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_SERVICE_PORT): The port number of the external database server
    • KIE Server External Database name (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_DB): The database name to use on the external database server
    • JDBC Connection Checker class (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_CONNECTION_CHECKER): The name of the JDBC connection checker class for the database server. Without this information, a database server connection cannot be restored after it is lost, for example, if the database server is rebooted.
    • JDBC Exception Sorter class (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_EXCEPTION_SORTER): The name of the JDBC exception sorter class for the database server. Without this information, a database server connection cannot be restored after it is lost, for example, if the database server is rebooted.

  2. If you created a custom image for using an external database server other than MySQL or PostgreSQL, as described in Section 2.5, “Building a custom Process Server extension image for an external database”, set the following parameters:

    • Drivers Extension Image (EXTENSIONS_IMAGE): The ImageStreamTag definition of the extension image, for example, jboss-kie-db2-extension-openshift-image:11.1.4.4
    • Drivers ImageStream Namespace (EXTENSIONS_IMAGE_NAMESPACE): The namespace to which you uploaded the extension image, for example, openshift or your project namespace.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

3.2.11. Enabling Prometheus metric collection for an immutable Process Server using S2I

If you want to configure your Process Server deployment to use Prometheus to collect and store metrics, enable support for this feature in Process Server at deployment time.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To enable support for Prometheus metric collection, set the Prometheus Server Extension Disabled (PROMETHEUS_SERVER_EXT_DISABLED) parameter to false.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.2.12, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I”.

For instructions about configuring Prometheus metrics collection, see Managing and monitoring Process Server.

3.2.12. Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server using S2I

After setting all the required parameters in the OpenShift Web UI or in the command line, complete deployment of the template.

Procedure

Depending on the method that you are using, complete the following steps:

  • In the OpenShift Web UI, click Create.

    • If the This will create resources that may have security or project behavior implications message appears, click Create Anyway.
  • Complete the command line and press Enter.

3.3. Modifying the template for deploying an immutable Process Server using S2I

By default, the template for deploying an immutable server using S2I creates a separate PostgreSQL pod to provide the database server for each replicable Process Server. If you prefer to use MySQL or an external server (outside the OpenShift project), modify the rhpam76-prod-immutable-kieserver.yaml or rhpam76-prod-immutable-kieserver-amq.yaml template file before deploying the server.

An OpenShift template defines a set of objects that can be created by OpenShift. To change an environment configuration, you need to modify, add, or delete these objects. To simplify this task, comments are provided in the Red Hat Process Automation Manager templates.

Some comments mark blocks within the template, staring with BEGIN and ending with END. For example, the following block is named Sample block: 

## Sample block BEGIN
sample line 1
sample line 2
sample line 3
## Sample block END

For some changes, you might need to replace a block in one template file with a block from another template file provided with Red Hat Process Automation Manager. In this case, delete the block, then paste the new block in its exact location.

Procedure

  • If you want to use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL, replace several blocks of the file, marked with comments from BEGIN to END, with blocks from the rhpam76-kieserver-mysql.yaml file:

    1. Replace the block named PostgreSQL database parameters with the block named MySQL database parameters. (Take this block and all subsequent replacement blocks from the rhpam76-kieserver-postgresql.yaml file.)
    2. Replace the block named PostgreSQL service with the block named MySQL service.
    3. Replace the block named PostgreSQL driver settings with the block named MySQL driver settings.
    4. Replace the block named PostgreSQL deployment config with the block named MySQL deployment config.
    5. Replace the block named PostgreSQL persistent volume claim with the block named MySQL persistent volume claim.

  • If you want to use an external database server, replace several blocks of the file, marked with comments from BEGIN to END, with blocks from the rhpam76-kieserver-externaldb.yaml file, and also remove some blocks:

    1. Replace the block named PostgreSQL database parameters with the block named External database parameters. (Take this block and all subsequent replacement blocks from the rhpam76-kieserver-externaldb.yaml file.)
    2. Replace the block named PostgreSQL driver settings with the block named External database driver settings.

    3. Remove the following blocks of the file, marked with comments from BEGIN to END:

      • PostgreSQL service
      • PostgreSQL deployment config
      • PostgreSQL persistent volume claim
Important

The standard Process Server image includes drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL external database servers. If you want to use another database server, you must build a custom Process Server image. For instructions, see Section 2.5, “Building a custom Process Server extension image for an external database”.

3.4. Deploying an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

You can deploy an immutable Process Server using services that are already built as KJAR files.

You must provide the services in a Maven repository. You can use the built-in repository of the Business Central or your own repository (for example, a Nexus deployment). When the server pod starts, it retrieves the KJAR services from the Maven repository. Services on the pod are never updated or changed. At every restart or scaling of the pod, the server retrieves the files from the repository, so you must ensure they do not change on the Maven repository to keep the deployment immutable.

You cannot deploy or undeploy services on a running immutable Process Server. You can use Business Central or Business Central Monitoring to view monitoring information. The Process Server runs like any other pod on the OpenShift environment; you can use any container-based integration workflows as necessary.

By default, this server uses a PostgreSQL database server in a pod. To use a MySQL database server in a pod or an external database server, you can modify the template.

If a Business Central or Business Central Monitoring is deployed in the same namespace, it discovers the immutable Process Server automatically. You can use Business Central or Business Central Monitoring to start and stop (but not deploy) services on the immutable Process Server and to view monitoring data.

3.4.1. Starting configuration of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

To deploy an immutable Process Server from KJAR services, use one of the following template files:

  • rhpam76-kieserver-postgresql.yaml to use a PostgreSQL pod for persistent storage. Use this template unless you have a specific reason to use another template.
  • rhpam76-kieserver-mysql.yaml to use a MySQL pod for persistent storage.

  • rhpam76-kieserver-externaldb.yaml to use an external database server for persistent storage.

    Important

    The standard Process Server image for an external database server includes drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL external database servers. If you want to use another database server, you must build a custom Process Server image. For instructions, see Section 2.5, “Building a custom Process Server extension image for an external database”.

Procedure

  1. Download the rhpam-7.6.0-openshift-templates.zip product deliverable file from the Software Downloads page of the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  2. Extract the required template file.

  3. Use one of the following methods to start deploying the template:

    • To use the OpenShift Web UI, in the OpenShift application console select Add to Project → Import YAML / JSON and then select or paste the <template-file-name>.yaml file. In the Add Template window, ensure Process the template is selected and click Continue.

    • To use the OpenShift command line console, prepare the following command line: 

      oc new-app -f <template-path>/<template-file-name>.yaml -p KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_SECRET=kieserver-app-secret -p PARAMETER=value

      In this command line, make the following changes:

      • Replace <template-path> with the path to the downloaded template file.
      • Replace <template-file-name> with the name of the template file.
      • Use as many -p PARAMETER=value pairs as needed to set the required parameters.

Next steps

Set the parameters for the template. Follow the steps in Section 3.4.2, “Setting required parameters for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services” to set common parameters. You can view the template file to see descriptions for all parameters.

3.4.2. Setting required parameters for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

When configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server from KJAR services, you must set the following parameters in all cases.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • KIE Server Keystore Secret Name (KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_SECRET): The name of the secret for Process Server, as created in Section 2.2, “Creating the secrets for Process Server”.
    • KIE Server Certificate Name (KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_NAME): The name of the certificate in the keystore that you created in Section 2.2, “Creating the secrets for Process Server”.
    • KIE Server Keystore Password (KIE_SERVER_HTTPS_PASSWORD): The password for the keystore that you created in Section 2.2, “Creating the secrets for Process Server”.
    • Application Name (APPLICATION_NAME): The name of the OpenShift application. It is used in the default URLs for Business Central Monitoring and Process Server. OpenShift uses the application name to create a separate set of deployment configurations, services, routes, labels, and artifacts. You can deploy several applications using the same template into the same project, as long as you use different application names. Also, the application name determines the name of the server configuration (server template) that the Process Server joins on Business Central or Business Central Monitoring. If you are deploying several Process Servers, you must ensure each of the servers has a different application name.
    • Maven repository URL (MAVEN_REPO_URL): A URL for a Maven repository. You must upload all the processes (KJAR files) that are to be deployed on the Process Server into this repository.
    • Maven repository ID (MAVEN_REPO_ID): An identifier for the Maven repository. The default value is repo-custom.
    • Maven repository username (MAVEN_REPO_USERNAME): The user name for the Maven repository.
    • Maven repository password (MAVEN_REPO_PASSWORD): The password for the Maven repository.

    • KIE Server Container Deployment (KIE_SERVER_CONTAINER_DEPLOYMENT): The identifying information of the decision services (KJAR files) that the deployment must pull from the Maven repository. The format is <containerId>=<groupId>:<artifactId>:<version> or, if you want to specify an alias name for the container, <containerId>(<aliasId>)=<groupId>:<artifactId>:<version>. You can provide two or more KJAR files using the | separator, as illustrated in the following example: 

      containerId=groupId:artifactId:version|c2(alias2)=g2:a2:v2
    • KIE Server Mode (KIE_SERVER_MODE): In the rhpam76-kieserver-*.yaml templates the default value is PRODUCTION. In PRODUCTION mode, you cannot deploy SNAPSHOT versions of KJAR artifacts on the Process Server and cannot change versions of an artifact in an existing container. To deploy a new version with PRODUCTION mode, create a new container on the same Process Server. To deploy SNAPSHOT versions or to change versions of an artifact in an existing container, set this parameter to DEVELOPMENT.
    • ImageStream Namespace (IMAGE_STREAM_NAMESPACE): The namespace where the image streams are available. If the image streams were already available in your OpenShift environment (see Section 2.1, “Ensuring the availability of image streams and the image registry”), the namespace is openshift. If you have installed the image streams file, the namespace is the name of the OpenShift project.

  2. You can set the following user name and password. By default, the deployment automatically generates the password.

    • KIE Server User (KIE_SERVER_USER) and KIE Server Password (KIE_SERVER_PWD): The user name and password that a client application can use to connect to any of the Process Servers.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

3.4.3. Configuring the image stream namespace for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

If you created image streams in a namespace that is not openshift, you must configure the namespace in the template.

If all image streams were already available in your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment, you can skip this procedure.

Prerequisites

Procedure

If you installed an image streams file according to instructions in Section 2.1, “Ensuring the availability of image streams and the image registry”, set the ImageStream Namespace (IMAGE_STREAM_NAMESPACE) parameter to the name of your OpenShift project.

3.4.4. Configuring information about a Business Central or Business Central Monitoring instance for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

If you want to enable a connection from a Business Central or Business Central Monitoring instance in the same namespace to the Process Server, you must configure information about the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring instance.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • KIE Admin User (KIE_ADMIN_USER) and KIE Admin Password (KIE_ADMIN_PWD): The user name and password for the administrative user. These values must be the same as the KIE_ADMIN_USER and KIE_ADMIN_PWD settings for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring. If the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring uses RH-SSO or LDAP authentication, these values must be a user name and password configured in the authentication system with an administrator role for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring.
    • Name of the Business Central service (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SERVICE): The OpenShift service name for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring.

  2. Ensure that the following settings are set to the same value as the same settings for the Business Central or Business Central Monitoring:

    • Maven repository URL (MAVEN_REPO_URL): A URL for the external Maven repository from which services must be deployed.
    • Maven repository username (MAVEN_REPO_USERNAME): The user name for the Maven repository.
    • Maven repository password (MAVEN_REPO_PASSWORD): The password for the Maven repository.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

3.4.5. Configuring access to a Maven mirror in an environment without a connection to the public Internet for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

When configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server from KJAR services, if your OpenShift environment does not have a connection to the public Internet, you must configure access to a Maven mirror that you set up according to Section 2.8, “Preparing a Maven mirror repository for offline use”.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To configure access to the Maven mirror, set the following parameters:

  • Maven mirror URL (MAVEN_MIRROR_URL): The URL for the Maven mirror repository that you set up in Section 2.8, “Preparing a Maven mirror repository for offline use”. This URL must be accessible from a pod in your OpenShift environment.

  • Maven mirror of (MAVEN_MIRROR_OF): The value that determines which artifacts are to be retrieved from the mirror. For instructions about setting the mirrorOf value, see Mirror Settings in the Apache Maven documentation. The default value is external:*. With this value, Maven retrieves every required artifact from the mirror and does not query any other repositories.

    • If you configure an external Maven repository (MAVEN_REPO_URL), change MAVEN_MIRROR_OF to exclude the artifacts in this repository from the mirror, for example, external:*,!repo-custom. Replace repo-custom with the ID that you configured in MAVEN_REPO_ID.
    • If you configure a built-in Business Central Maven repository (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_MAVEN_SERVICE), change MAVEN_MIRROR_OF to exclude the artifacts in this repository from the mirror: external:*,!repo-rhpamcentr.
    • If you configure both repositories, change MAVEN_MIRROR_OF to exclude the artifacts in both repositories from the mirror: external:*,!repo-rhpamcentr,!repo-custom. Replace repo-custom with the ID that you configured in MAVEN_REPO_ID.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

3.4.6. Setting parameters for RH-SSO authentication for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

If you want to use RH-SSO authentication, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server from KJAR services.

Important

Do not configure LDAP authentication and RH-SSO authentication in the same deployment.

Prerequisites

  • A realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager is created in the RH-SSO authentication system.
  • User names and passwords for Red Hat Process Automation Manager are created in the RH-SSO authentication system. For a list of the available roles, see Chapter 4, Red Hat Process Automation Manager roles and users. In order to set the parameters for the environment, an administrative user with the kie-server,rest-all,admin roles is required. The default user name for this user is adminUser. This user can administer and use the environment.
  • Clients are created in the RH-SSO authentication system for all components of the Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment that you are deploying. The client setup contains the URLs for the components. You can review and edit the URLs after deploying the environment. Alternatively, the Red Hat Process Automation Manager deployment can create the clients. However, this option provides less detailed control over the environment.
  • You started the configuration of the template, as described in Section 3.4.1, “Starting configuration of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

Procedure

  1. Set the KIE_ADMIN_USER and KIE_ADMIN_PASSWORD parameters of the template to the user name and password of the administrative user that you created in the RH-SSO authentication system.

  2. Set the following parameters:

    • RH-SSO URL (SSO_URL): The URL for RH-SSO.
    • RH-SSO Realm name (SSO_REALM): The RH-SSO realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager.
    • RH-SSO Disable SSL Certificate Validation (SSO_DISABLE_SSL_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION): Set to true if your RH-SSO installation does not use a valid HTTPS certificate.

  3. Complete one of the following procedures:

    1. If you created the client for Red Hat Process Automation Manager within RH-SSO, set the following parameters in the template:

      • Business Central or Business Central Monitoring RH-SSO Client name (BUSINESS_CENTRAL_SSO_CLIENT): The RH-SSO client name for Business Central or Business Central Monitoring.
      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client name (KIE_SERVER_SSO_CLIENT): The RH-SSO client name for Process Server.
      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client Secret (KIE_SERVER_SSO_SECRET): The secret string that is set in RH-SSO for the client for Process Server.

    2. To create the clients for Red Hat Process Automation Manager within RH-SSO, set the following parameters in the template:

      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client name (KIE_SERVER_SSO_CLIENT): The name of the client to create in RH-SSO for Process Server.
      • KIE Server RH-SSO Client Secret (KIE_SERVER_SSO_SECRET): The secret string to set in RH-SSO for the client for Process Server.
      • RH-SSO Realm Admin Username (SSO_USERNAME) and RH-SSO Realm Admin Password (SSO_PASSWORD): The user name and password for the realm administrator user for the RH-SSO realm for Red Hat Process Automation Manager. You must provide this user name and password in order to create the required clients.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

After completing the deployment, review the URLs for components of Red Hat Process Automation Manager in the RH-SSO authentication system to ensure they are correct.

3.4.7. Setting parameters for LDAP authentication for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

If you want to use LDAP authentication, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server from KJAR services.

Important

Do not configure LDAP authentication and RH-SSO authentication in the same deployment.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In the LDAP service, create all user names in the deployment parameters. If you do not set any of the parameters, create users with the default user names. The created users must also be assigned to roles:

    • KIE_ADMIN_USER: default user name adminUser, roles: kie-server,rest-all,admin

    • KIE_SERVER_USER: default user name executionUser, roles kie-server,rest-all,guest

      For the user roles that you can configure in LDAP, see Roles and users.

  2. Set the AUTH_LDAP* parameters of the template. These parameters correspond to the settings of the LdapExtended Login module of Red Hat JBoss EAP. For instructions about using these settings, see LdapExtended login module.

    If the LDAP server does not define all the roles required for your deployment, you can map LDAP groups to Red Hat Process Automation Manager roles. To enable LDAP role mapping, set the following parameters:

    • RoleMapping rolesProperties file path (AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_ROLES_PROPERTIES): The fully qualified path name of a file that defines role mapping, for example, /opt/eap/standalone/configuration/rolemapping/rolemapping.properties. You must provide this file and mount it at this path in all applicable deployment configurations; for instructions, see Section 3.5, “(Optional) Providing the LDAP role mapping file”.
    • RoleMapping replaceRole property (AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_REPLACE_ROLE): If set to true, mapped roles replace the roles defined on the LDAP server; if set to false, both mapped roles and roles defined on the LDAP server are set as user application roles. The default setting is false.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

3.4.8. Setting parameters for using an external database server for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

If you are using the rhpam76-kieserver-externaldb.yaml template to use an external database server for the Process Server, complete the following additional configuration when configuring the template to deploy an immutable Process Server from KJAR services.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Set the following parameters:

    • KIE Server External Database Driver (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_DRIVER): The driver for the server, depending on the server type:

      • mysql
      • postgresql
      • mariadb
      • mssql
      • db2
      • oracle
      • sybase
    • KIE Server External Database User (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_USER) and KIE Server External Database Password (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_PWD): The user name and password for the external database server
    • KIE Server External Database URL (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_URL): The JDBC URL for the external database server

    • KIE Server External Database Dialect (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_DIALECT): The Hibernate dialect for the server, depending on the server type:

      • org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect (used for MySQL and MariaDB)
      • org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL82Dialect
      • org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServer2012Dialect (used for MS SQL)
      • org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect
      • org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect
      • org.hibernate.dialect.SybaseASE157Dialect
    • KIE Server External Database Host (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_SERVICE_HOST): The host name of the external database server
    • KIE Server External Database Port (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_SERVICE_PORT): The port number of the external database server
    • KIE Server External Database name (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_DB): The database name to use on the external database server
    • JDBC Connection Checker class (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_CONNECTION_CHECKER): The name of the JDBC connection checker class for the database server. Without this information, a database server connection cannot be restored after it is lost, for example, if the database server is rebooted.
    • JDBC Exception Sorter class (KIE_SERVER_EXTERNALDB_EXCEPTION_SORTER): The name of the JDBC exception sorter class for the database server. Without this information, a database server connection cannot be restored after it is lost, for example, if the database server is rebooted.

  2. If you created a custom image for using an external database server other than MySQL or PostgreSQL, as described in Section 2.5, “Building a custom Process Server extension image for an external database”, set the following parameters:

    • Drivers Extension Image (EXTENSIONS_IMAGE): The ImageStreamTag definition of the extension image, for example, jboss-kie-db2-extension-openshift-image:11.1.4.4
    • Drivers ImageStream Namespace (EXTENSIONS_IMAGE_NAMESPACE): The namespace to which you uploaded the extension image, for example, openshift or your project namespace.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

3.4.9. Enabling Prometheus metric collection for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

If you want to configure your Process Server deployment to use Prometheus to collect and store metrics, enable support for this feature in Process Server at deployment time.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To enable support for Prometheus metric collection, set the Prometheus Server Extension Disabled (PROMETHEUS_SERVER_EXT_DISABLED) parameter to false.

Next steps

If necessary, set additional parameters.

To complete the deployment, follow the procedure in Section 3.4.10, “Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services”.

For instructions about configuring Prometheus metrics collection, see Managing and monitoring Process Server.

3.4.10. Completing deployment of the template for an immutable Process Server from KJAR services

After setting all the required parameters in the OpenShift Web UI or in the command line, complete deployment of the template.

Procedure

Depending on the method that you are using, complete the following steps:

  • In the OpenShift Web UI, click Create.

    • If the This will create resources that may have security or project behavior implications message appears, click Create Anyway.
  • Complete the command line and press Enter.

3.5. (Optional) Providing the LDAP role mapping file

If you configure the AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_ROLES_PROPERTIES parameter, you must provide a file that defines the role mapping. Mount this file on all affected deployment configurations.

Procedure

  1. Create the role mapping properties file, for example, my-role-map. The file must contain entries in the following format: 

    ldap_role = product_role1, product_role2...

    For example: 

    admins = kie-server,rest-all,admin

  2. Create an OpenShift configuration map from the file by entering the following command: 

    oc create configmap ldap-role-mapping --from-file=<new_name>=<existing_name>

    Replace <new_name> with the name that the file is to have on the pods (it must be the same as the name specified in the AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_ROLES_PROPERTIES file) and <existing_name> with the name of the file that you created. Example: 

    oc create configmap ldap-role-mapping --from-file=rolemapping.properties=my-role-map

  3. Mount the configuration map on every deployment configuration that is configured for role mapping.

    The following deployment configurations can be affected in this environment:

    • myapp-rhpamcentrmon: Business Central Monitoring
    • myapp-kieserver: Process Server

    Replace myapp with the application name. Sometimes, several Process Server deployments can be present under different application names.

    For every deployment configuration, run the command: 

     oc set volume dc/<deployment_config_name> --add --type configmap --configmap-name ldap-role-mapping --mount-path=<mapping_dir> --name=ldap-role-mapping

    Replace <mapping_dir> with the directory name (without file name) set in the AUTH_ROLE_MAPPER_ROLES_PROPERTIES parameter, for example, /opt/eap/standalone/configuration/rolemapping .