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A JobScheduler Agent without its own configuration or a JobScheduler instance can be installed. (this is called the client). Processes on the agent or the instance of JobScheduler are remotely controlled by another JobScheduler.
Jobs are sent to scheduled at the client according to their events (e.g. heir planned starting times) or commands.
See also How does a supervisor scheduler distribute the 'central configuration directory'?/scheduler.doc/remote_execution.xml external job processing with agents] in the JobScheduler documentation.
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A JobScheduler instance is installed, which then receives its configuration from a JobScheduler supervisor.
The configurations of all the remotely configured JobSchedulers in a network are centrally administered by a so-called Supervisor and which distributes the configurations to the remotely configured "workload" JobSchedulers.
If the Supervisor is temporarily not available, the Workload JobSchedulers will continue to work using their local configurations.
See also: [How does a supervisor scheduler distribute the 'central configuration directory'?
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