Policy Designer System Requirements

License Requirements

The Policy Designer license is required to take full advantage of Policy Designer functionality.

This license is not required for the module workflow policies to operate; however, if you want to modify a module workflow policy, the Policy Designer license is required. You do not need the Policy Designer license to view module workflow policies for modules for which you have a license.

Additional Components Required

When you install the GE Digital APM Server, the Policy Execution Service and Policy Trigger Service are installed automatically. In order to execute policies, you must configure these services on the appropriate machines.

Note: Depending on the number of policies that you need to manage in your system, you may have multiple GE Digital APM Servers to process policy executions. In this case, you can configure your GE Digital APM System Architecture according to your company's preference for server load-balancing.

Your system must also meet the system requirements for any additional modules that you plan to use with Policy Designer.

System Architecture

The following image shows the basic system architecture for deploying Policy Designer with one GE Digital APM Server that processes policy executions.

Deploying Policy Designer

After you have installed and configured the basic GE Digital APM system architecture, you will need to perform some configuration steps specifically for Policy Designer.

If you want to use Policy Designer with Process Data Integration and Asset Health Manager, you must also configure the services associated with these modules. For additional information on how services used by these three modules interact, select this link.

Supported Features in APM Now

In the APM Now environment, certain input nodes (i.e., the AMS Asset, OPC Tag, and GE Tag nodes) are unavailable because the corresponding modules are not supported. In addition, the Rule node is supported only for rules that already exist in your database. All other standard GE Digital APM product features for this module are available.