The Developer Edition's (previously 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 any 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 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 download 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 version requirements.

Limitation

Developer edition installations are limited to 10 monitored devices.
Developer edition installation is limited to 90 days, after 90 days, you will be redirected to a license page where a license request key will be generated.
Send the license request key to 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
1 WS-M agent
1 syslogs Agent
Limited amount of Data collected
No support for upgrades / fixpack

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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