Determining Your Deployment Strategy

You can deploy the SIMULIA Execution Engine WebTop and WebDashboard in several different ways, based on your network environment and computing resources. In general, you need to decide if the web-based applications will run on the same computer as the SIMULIA Execution Engine or on a different system.

There are three basic choices:

  • Install the web-based applications on a separate system from the SIMULIA Execution Engine. This is the recommended architecture.

  • Install the web-based applications on the same system as the SIMULIA Execution Engine, in a different WebSphere instance (profile). It is recommended that you use a separate profile for increased scalability and performance.

  • Install the web-based applications on the same system and profile as the SIMULIA Execution Engine.

    Although this configuration is possible, in a production environment it is recommended that you use a different profile (or different system) for optimal performance. This simpler configuration may be useful for prototyping or testing, however.