Why would you use nodes in Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1?

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Since CRS 2008 is not a clustered environment, why would you choose to use nodes? What benefits do they offer?

Kind regards,

Janice

[former_member59613 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jan,

CRS is just a scaled down version of BusinessObjects Enterprise. Nodes are used because they are a core piece of the architecture and it would not have been worth the risks of changing the code to remove/hide them from CRS.

That's the reason you see them. One benefit that I can think of is:

- You could create a node called: "XtraWebi" and have additional Webi Processing Servers added to this node. You could then bring this node up if/when you needed additional Webi Processing Servers. Since the SIA is a Windows Service, you can easily automate starting/stopping that node.

Anyways, I'm sure you could use them to help you more effectively manage the different groups of services that CRS manages.

Hope this helps,

Thanks

Jb