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Task Server can run on either an administrator computer or a dedicated remote computer that accepts jobs from the Remote Desktop application.
Planning to Deploy a Task Server for Reports
If you plan on using a Task Server to collect cached report data from client computers, make sure you have enough processing power, network bandwidth, and storage on the Task Server computer. You can run the Task Server on either the administrator computer or a dedicated remote computer. The default Task Server is the administrator computer on which you installed Remote Desktop. If you later change which computer runs the Task Server, the database is
The following considerations should be met:
ÂHave enough bandwidth for all the clients to upload their report information.
With a large number of clients per Task Server, the network usage from the clients as they upload their report data could overwhelm the network, reducing performance and even overwhelming the network buffer on the Task Server.
If network throughput is a concern, the bandwidth throttling features of Apple Remote Desktop 3 can be used.
ÂIf your network infrastructure can’t handle the number of simultaneous client data updates, you should divide the load between network segments using additional Task Server computers.
Increasing the number of Task Server computers and dividing the network may lead to better performance and better network citizenship. However, since there is no way to aggregate report data across Task Servers and display it on one administrator computer, you would need multiple administrators to balance your network load.
ÂIf you use a single database for a large number of clients, you may need to stagger the generation of report caches.
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