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Servant Facility

The Servant Facility is an optional feature of CA VM:Director. It is a set of special worker virtual machines that help CA VM:Director perform long-running minidisk and SFS management CMS tasks. With the Servant Facility, directory managers can perform minidisk management functions disconnected from their terminals. This means that they can submit minidisk management requests to CA VM:Director and use their user IDs for other work while CA VM:Director, through the Servant Facility worker virtual machines, processes these requests.

You must use the Servant Facility if you use CA VM:Director for SFS administration and want to use the DELETE and CHANGE commands. With the Servant Facility, potentially long–running commands can execute on a CA VM:Director servant instead of tying up the CA VM:Director service virtual machine.

The Servant Facility is either enabled or disabled on your system, and is used by CA VM:Director whenever CA VM:Director needs extra worker machines to complete long–running tasks in a timely fashion. No user intervention, either by you or by any operators, is required to use the Servant Facility if it is enabled.

Note: For more information about the Servant Facility, see Servant Facility.