Configuration Service
The Configuration Service
provides central configuration for the farm. It also it tracks active sessions and
database locks for OLAP.
The Configuration Service stores the farm configuration in a database. The farm configuration includes these components:
- Farm configuration
- Security configuration
- Database directories for OLAP
- Available service instances per service
- Service-specific settings
- Farm resources
The Configuration Service registers these relational farm databases:
- Configuration database
- Repository database
- Logs database
- Staging database
- Modeling Service database
- Financial Consolidation database
- OLAP database registrations
The Configuration Service registers all OLAP databases of the farm.
- Application plugins
Store plugin codes for a plugin supported service. This storage enables successful distribution of plugins to all workers during the runtime of the farm and assists with maintenance of plugin supported applications.
The Configuration Service scales with the number of service instances in the farm.
Dependency on number of users is low.