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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 management CMS tasks. If the Servant Facility is active at your site, you can perform minidisk management functions disconnected from your terminal. This means that you can submit minidisk management requests, such as creating minidisks, to CA VM:Director and use your user ID for other work while CA VM:Director, through the Servant Facility worker virtual machines, processes these requests.

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. However, the parameters and options you can use for some commands or on some entry screens, and the behavior of your user ID during some processing functions, is affected by the state of the Servant Facility at your site.