The Developer Edition 's (previously known as the Light Edition) aim is to assist assists the developer, administrator and technical presale staff to evaluate the product by running a functionally limited edition of DPOD on a workstation environment.It is geared towards the DataPower developer that wants to run DPOD on their development workstation, in the context of limited functionality Proof Of Concept.

The Developer Edition should NOT be used is not recommended for customer POCs. For customer POCs it is recommended to use at least , due to its limited functionality. Instead, use the Standard Edition with the Minimal or Low deployment profileprofiles.

The Developer Edition does not 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 & 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 Edition:

• The ISO filename should be DPOD-Developer-CentOS-<version>.iso and can be downloaded from Fix Central.
• The CentOS installation screen will show Developer Edition.
• A single configuration setup for development that exists only in the Development ISO file.

Less Hardware and Software Requirements

Please view the product Hardware and Software requirements that include the Developer Edition's requirements.

Limitations

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What are the Major Differences from the Standard Edition?

• The developer edition is free, under a restricted license, and may be used for demonstration, development and evaluation only.

• Lower hardware & software requirements (see Hardware and Software Requirements):

  • A single deployment profile only.

  • Only one Syslog agent and one WS-M agent.

• The functionality is limited:

  • Limited to 10 monitored gateways.

  • Limited to 1 monitored cloud agent.

  • Limited to 10 monitored gateways per cloud agent.

  • Limited to 90 days.
    After 90 days, you will be redirected to

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• • the Product Activation page where

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• • an activation request key can be generated.
    

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• • You may send the

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• • activation request key to

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• • your IBM representative to

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The Developer Edition allows only limited configuration. This means:

• A single deployment profile
• 1 WS-M agent
• 1 Syslog agent

• • request an extension of the license.

  • Limited amount of data collected.

• No support for upgrades / fixpacks

  The Developer Edition does not support upgrading and it does not get any fix packs.
  To upgrade to a newer version, a full re-installation of the product is required.

Installation steps:

• Download the ISO file from Fix Central (file name is DPOD_Developer_Edition_Appliance_<VERSION>.

  Verify your system requirements, choose the development deployment profile and make sure to allocate the required resources

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• Download the md5file from Fix Central and verify the integrity of the ISO file previously downloaded.

• Verify your system requirements.

• Prepare your network configuration.

• Prepare your monitored devices.

• Perform

  the Appliance Installation procedure

  the Appliance Installation procedure.

• Review the post installation tasks.

  Docker container for Light Developer edition