Resource Management

Service Deployment files that are used by Engines are centrally managed, starting at the Director. The resources centrally located on the Director are then synchronized to Brokers, which then synchronize them with Engines.

Resources are distributed with Grid Libraries. A Grid Library is an archive containing a set of resources and properties necessary to run a Grid Service, along with configuration information that describes how those resources are to be used. Grid Libraries can contain JARs, native libraries, configuration files, environment variables, and hook files or alternate JREs needed to run a Service. Grid Libraries offer the flexibility to do such things as package a Service for use on multiple OSes from a single archive, upgrade resources without interrupting running Sessions, and change Grid Library variables without redeploying a Grid Library.