Administration

Administration and maintenance of SpeedLink Services is almost identical to GridServer because SpeedLink uses GridServer Brokers and Engines to maintain an Engine pool. SpeedLink has its own Service Type; SpeedLink clients are managed on the Client Admin page, and SpeedLink Services appear on the Dashboard, as do GridServer Services.

However, there are features not supported in SpeedLink that might change some aspects of your grid management. These include:

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Reporting— due to the large amount of reporting information generated, SpeedLink's task-level reporting is summary only; operation-level reporting must be performed by the client.

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Service Options— for example, a grid configured to use redundant scheduling, which is not supported with SpeedLink, might need to be managed differently.

Despite these differences, an administrator already familiar with GridServer's Administration Tool has no difficulty managing SpeedLink Services.