Optim Manager packages

Optim Manager includes several installation packages.

The following installation packages are available.

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE)
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE) is a lightweight J2EE application server. It is based upon Apache Geronimo technology developed by the Apache Software Foundation.

The Optim™ Management Server and Optim Manager each require a J2EE application server.

WAS-CE can be used to simultaneously host the Optim Management Server and Optim Manager when installing these two components on the same machine. If you plan on using WAS-CE as your application server, only install one instance of WAS-CE on this machine.

You can install WAS-CE in the same package group as the following packages: Optim Management Server, Optim Manager, and the Optim Shared Libraries.

Optim Management Server
The Optim Management Server delegates the operations in an Optim service, set up in the Optim Designer, to one or more Proxies. The Management Server also manages the configuration needed to find Proxies and delegates services to them. Only the Management Server communicates with a Proxy. The Management Server also hosts the Optim Manager.

The Optim Management Server requires a J2EE application server.

The Optim Management Server installation copies a Web Archive file (WAR), management-server.war, to the computer.

You can install the Optim Management Server in the same package group as the following packages: WAS-CE, Optim Manager, and the Optim Shared Libraries.

Optim Manager
The Optim Manager is a web application used to run and monitor Optim data management services. The Manager is displayed in a web browser connected to an Optim Management Server.

The Optim Manager requires a J2EE application server.

The Optim Manager installation copies a Web Archive file (WAR), optim.war, to the computer.

You can install the Optim Manager in the same package group as the following packages: WAS-CE, Optim Management Server, and the Optim Shared Libraries.

Optim Proxy
The Optim Proxy is a distributed process that executes data management services on the behalf of the Optim Management Server. For fastest processing, install the Optim Proxy on the same machine as the data source or on a computer with a fast connection to the data source.
Optim Shared Libraries
The Optim Shared Libraries component contains native libraries that are required by all Optim components (Optim Designer, Optim Manager, Optim Management Server, and Optim Proxy). This component must be installed on every machine that has another Optim component installed and must be present before any Optim component can be executed on this computer.

This package also includes documentation for Optim Designer and the Optim Manager environment.

You can install the Optim Shared Libraries in the same package group as the following packages: WAS-CE, Optim Management Server, and Optim Manager. If the same version of Optim Shared libraries is already installed on a computer, then you do not need to install it again.

When installed with Optim Designer, the Optim Shared Libraries installation directory must be included in the following environment variable: For Windows, the PATH variable. For Linux, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

Optim Service Publisher
Optim Service Publisher generates services from Optim distributed requests that you specify and publishes the generated services to an instance of an Optim registry. You can then use Optim Manager to run the generated services. This version of Optim Service Publisher is not compatible with previous Optim component releases.