The Developer Edition's (also known Light) aim is to assist the Developer , Administrator and Technical presale to evaluate the product 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's should NOT used for POCs. For POCs it is recommended to use at least the Standard Edition with minimum configuration load type.
The Developer Edition is not supporting upgrades. Each new version requires reinstall 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 Light Edition installation?
The following can be used to identify a Developer edition:
- The ISO filename should be IBM_DataPower_OpDashboard_Dev<version>.iso
- 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 Light version requirements.
Limitation
The Light Edition allows only limited configuration. This means :
- A single type of architecture configuration file that provides a single DPOD node architecture
- 1 WS-M agent
- 1 syslogs Agent
- Limited amount of Data collected
- No support for upgrades / fixpack