Primary, Second Primary, and Remote Machines

You perform ActiveMatrix BPM installation and configuration tasks on either a primary machine, second primary machine, or remote machine.

These terms have the following specific meanings in the context of ActiveMatrix BPM:

  • Primary means the machine that hosts the ActiveMatrix Administrator server, whether or not that machine also hosts any BPM nodes.
  • Second primary means the machine that hosts a replicated ActiveMatrix Administrator server, whether or not that machine also hosts any BPM nodes.
  • Remote means any other machine that hosts a BPM node (of any type, but not an ActiveMatrix Administrator server.
Note: A basic BPM system consists only of a primary machine. See Example ActiveMatrix BPM system using a basic configuration.

A distributed BPM system contains: