Reasons for using Workgroups

If you are interested in using EnterpriseSCHEDULE to do any of the following, you can use the powerful Workgroup facility. By definition a Workgroup is more than one server or workstation running the EnterpriseSCHEDULE server with TCP/IP (or in the case of OpenVMS DECnet) communication enabled.

1. You want to run jobs on multiple machines - distribute the workload
2. You want to balance the load across machines
3. You want to distribute your work across a lot of nodes
4. You want to run jobs on all of your nodes
5. You want to run jobs in a round robin fashion across a lot of nodes
6. You want to distribute your jobs database across nodes
7. You want to replicate your jobs database across nodes

Read the following sections for information on setting up and running a Workgroup