Migrating Enterprise Environment

These sections provide specific procedures for upgrading an existing environment running on ALBPM Enterprise 6.0 to Oracle BPM Enterprise 10.3.

You must follow the procedures on the next sections in the order presented. Those sections specific to certain environments may be skipped as noted in the beginning of each section.

Upgrading Database structures

The schema structure of the Directory databases is automatically migrated when you first start Oracle BPM 10.3 Process Administrator. Likewise, the schema structures of the Engines' databases are migrated automatically when you first start each Engine. This means that pre-existing process instances will continue their execution on the new 10.3 environment.

Important: The database (JDBC) users configured for the Directory and Engine Databases must have enough privileges to perform SQL DDL (Data Definition Language) operations (like ALTER, CREATE and DROP statements). Otherwise, the Process Administrator application and the Engine will fail to migrate the structures of their SQL tables and will not to start.
  1. Installing Oracle BPM 10.3 Enterprise
    The first step of the upgrade process is to download and install Oracle BPM Enterprise 10.3.
  2. Un-Deploying BPM 6.0 J2EE Applications
    On ALBPM 6.0 environments running on WebLogic or WebSphere you must first stop and un-install all ALBPM-related .EAR and .WAR applications.
  3. Configuring Directory DB
    After installing Oracle BPM 10.3, you must run Oracle BPM Admin Center to create a new Directory configuration that will connect to your existing BPM 6.0 Directory database.
  4. Starting Process Administrator
    After creating a new Directory configuration pointing to your existing 6.0 Directory database you must start Oracle BPM's Process Administrator to continue with the upgrade procedures.
  5. Validate Engine properties
    Validate that the existing configuration properties of your Engine still apply for your new Oracle BPM 10.3 environment.
  6. Specific Steps for WebLogic Environments
    If you are upgrading an Oracle BPM for WebLogic environment, follow these additional steps.
  7. Start Execution Engines