Worker and manager services

All services, except the Configuration Service, include service workers and managers.

A service manager is the entry point to a service. It receives all requests within, and from outside, the farm and allocates them to a service worker. The service manager is responsible for load-balancing, monitoring, and failover. It is also the service through which service workers communicate with each other.

A service worker is the software application. It performs the tasks associated with each request, such as data retrieval and storage.

Infor d/EPM Platform services talk to each other and some of the services can be contacted from outside the farm. Communication is always handled by managers which are the front-facing part of Infor d/EPM Platform services. Managers are internal and cannot be contacted directly.