About Server Groups

A CAPSYS Server Group is a collection of one or more CAPSYS Servers running together with the same settings.

A Server Group has two purposes. First, a Server Group allows you to define a single set of policies that determine how CAPSYS acquires cases and employs the CAPSYS Server to process them. Second, a server group is a scalable feature that allows you to enable multiple CAPSYS Servers to work together in order to increase system processing power, enhance fault tolerance and balance processing loads.

Server Group Policies

Server group policies define the following guidelines:

Servers — Which CAPSYS Server works for the group? If more that one CAPSYS Server is assigned to the group, the servers will compete against each other for batches and individual documents to process.
Input Sources — Which CAPSYS input source works for the group and how is it configured? Multiple input sources of differing types can be assigned to the same server group. Any CAPSYS Server that is also assigned to the group can use any available input source to locate new batches to process.
Batch Profiles — Of the batches found either by an input source or within a batch-level process queue, which of these does a CAPSYS Server have permission to process? A CAPSYS Server will skip any batch whose batch profile is not assigned to its server group.
NOTE: Batch Profiles must be assigned to a Server Group in order for any processing to occur.

Scalability and Server Segregation

As mentioned above, if more than one CAPSYS Server is assigned to the same server group, each will use the same available input sources and look in the same process queues for cases to process. The first server to lock a case to itself will keep it until the case is placed into a process queue or passed to a CAPSYS Server Extension (QSX) module for formatting and release from the system.

You can create multiple server groups to further segregate processing resources.