Process Server Utilities

Use the process server to run DPS processing jobs involving large amounts of data. The process server sends these lengthy jobs to the DPS application server, where they run in the background.

When you submit a processing job to the process server, you free the submitting computer to be used for other tasks.

• You can schedule each submitted process to run only after a specific date or time, during the night, or on weekends.
• The process server's multi-threading feature allows you to run a number of jobs concurrently. You can set the number of jobs you want to run concurrently, no matter how many jobs are in a particular queue.
• You can dedicate each queue to a specific server. For example, you can assign large jobs to the server machine with the largest capacity. You can have as many process servers as your firm needs.

Typical Jobs

You might submit jobs such as these to the process server:

• A large report
• Revenue generation
• Batch reporting
• Billing
• Postings
• Overhead allocation

The process server also handles alerts (for example, for timesheet due, timesheet approval, or a budget milestone).

Schedule Reports

If you have a process server set up, all report applications include a Schedule option. Select the Schedule option to send a report to the process server queue instead of tying up your workstation while the report runs.

Security and Priority Access

In Security Roles Configuration ( Configuration > Security > Roles), you set options related to the process server:

• In the

  Process Queues

  group box on the General Tab, you can specify the highest priority in the queue that users with the security role can have.
• In the

  Functional Area

  section on the Access Rights tab, you define the printers available to a security role. For example, you might use this feature to prevent users from accidentally sending reports to a printer in a different office, or to ensure that users do not send normal report jobs to high-capacity or color printers.

Related Topics:

• Process Queue Manager Utility The Process Queue Manager utility allows you to view a list of processes for a selected process queue, and review the status and position of a scheduled process.
• Profile Editor Utility Use the Profile Editor utility to create a group of jobs that you can submit as a single job to a process queue. These jobs are likely to be jobs that you run repeatedly or on a regular basis.
• Process Server Management Utility Use the Process Server Management utility to monitor the status of both the process server and the system process server on each server. You can also use it to start and stop servers and view the server Event Log.