The Developer EditionEdition's (previously known as Light Edition) aim is to assist the Developer developer, Administrator administrator and Technical technical presale staff to evaluate the product on a workstation environment.
It is geared towards the DataPower developer that wants to run DPOD on their Development Workstationdevelopment workstation, in the context of of limited functionality Proof Of Concept.
The Developer Edition's Developer Edition should NOT be used for customer POCs. For customer POCs it is recommended to use at least the Standard Edition with minimum configuration load type.
The Developer Edition is does not supporting support any upgrades. Each new version requires a full reinstall of the product.
What are the major differences?
The Developer Edition is identical to the GA Edition and has all of its components. It differs in the following aspects:
- Less Hardware hardware & Software software requirements
- Limited configuration
- One extra post-installation step
How to Identify a Developer Edition installation?
The following can be used to identify a Developer editionEdition:
- The ISO filename should be DPOD-Developer-CentOS-<version>.iso and can be download downloaded from fix centralFix Central.
- The CentOS installation screen will show Developer Edition.
- A single configuration setup for development that exists only in the Development ISO file.
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Please view the product Hardware and Software requirements that include the Developer version Edition's requirements.
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Limitations
Developer edition Edition installations are limited to 10 monitored devices.
Developer edition installation is Edition installations are limited to 90 days, after . After 90 days, you will be redirected to a license page where a license request key will can be generated.
Send the license request key to an IBM representative to get your license (the representative's email address will appear on - screen).
The Developer Edition allows only limited configuration. This means:
- A single type of architecture configuration file that provides a single DPOD node architecture architecture
- 1 WS-M agent
- 1 syslogs AgentSyslog agent
- Limited amount of Data data collected
- No support for upgrades / fixpackfixpacks
Docker container for Light Developer edition
For developer usage only, there is a Docker container packaging the allows faster deployment with minimum resources to run on laptops or to demonstrate basic functionalities of DPOD. Please read more here.
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