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.