[staf-users] Services on all agents?

If I deploy staf on a group machines and I wish to use some of the "other" staf services such as cron or SXE do I need to include them on each machine (in each STAF install)? Or can I have one central machine with all the services and somehow with STAF, reference the service I wish to use? I guess

Re: [staf-users] Services on all agents?

Typically you would just install/configure the other STAF services on a central machine, and just have your tests submit the requests for those services to the central machine. Thanks, David David Bender 11501

Re: [staf-users] Services on all agents?

Hi David, Yeah for these test topology the tests will reside on the respective machines. So if I decide to NFS mount the location of the services to each agent, would the STAF architecture have any issue with the NFS mount? Thanks -george From: David Bender [mailto:bda...@us.ibm.com] Sent

Re: [staf-users] Services on all agents?

Sure, if you wanted to have the other service files reside on an NFS mount and have each agent use the NFS mount location when configuring the service locally, that should work. However, I don't really see any advantage to doing that.the simplest approach would be to configure the other servic