MID Servers: How Supported Applications and Capabilities Work Together?

[Rick54]

Hello,

I am wondering how 'Supported Applications' and 'Capabilities' work together on the mid servers. I am little confused on how workflow activities, flow designers and other Orchestration stuff pick up the mid servers. Does anybody have good understanding on how these work? I ran into a scenario where I have one mid server Supported Application=Discovery, Capabilities=All but this mid is still being picked up by integrations. I hope someone has good explanation on this topic.

 

Thanks!

[Frank Tate]

I'm not sure on the actual innerworkings, but I have some additional information for you, I think.

Here's a link that provides some additional information.

In there, see this part:

Application	Additional notes
Orchestration	Orchestration attempts to use the default MID Server when it cannot find any MID Servers with the capabilities that you define in the Orchestration activity. You can also specify a default MID Server. The value in that property automatically synchronizes with the default MID Server you select in the Orchestration application.

I believe it's supposed to work the way you assume it should. However, it looks like the Orchestration activity (the one used by integrations) is going to try to always use one MID server, even if you haven't assigned the Orchestration application to any one of them. It also may have a Default MID Server set. Go to MID Servers -> Applications to see the list of Applications and the default MID Server set for each application. In my PDI I see my MID server set as the Default for Orchestration even though I don't remember ever directlysetting that value.

I'm not sure if this helps in your case.

Frank

[rakeshreddy1809]

Hi Rick, Any update on this have you found a way I have Two mid servers where one is dedicated to Discovery and other for Orchestration but orchestration is taking places on both mid server.

Thanks,

Rakesh