topic Re: Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster in QlikView

Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello community,

In an environment where we cluster the publisher (2 distribution services), can we define which service/system/resource should be allocated to a specific task?

The problem is that we have many scheduled tasks, but one of the dashboards should be reloaded when opened.

Thus we want to dedicate a server for this task instead of being added to a potential queue.

Appreciate your help and suggestions.

bbt‌

gwassenaar‌

Re: Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster

Bill_Britt — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:25 GMT

HI,

No, in a cluster environment the task are shared base on the load of the machines.

Bill

Re: Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster

Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:34:35 GMT

Okay I see.

Bill, do you have any other suggestion to our situation ?

Or clustering the publisher is already the best approach to adopt (and then relying on the load balancing algorithm to choose the most available server) ?

Re: Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster

Peter_Cammaert — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:35:09 GMT

I thought this task assignment to a specific node was a feature of the soon-to-be-released v12.10. But the currnet versions only allow you to publish documents to a specific node, not reload them.

Re: Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:58:57 GMT

What happened is that the client installed the management console and the distribution service on that new server using a second publisher license.

For the rest of the services he pointed them to the first server (same values as in the console of first server).

He then added a new task for that dashboard in the second console (separated from the other list of tasks).

Re: Define Which Tasks To Run On Specific Cluster

pauljohansson — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:50:17 GMT

Hi Jean-Pierre

My understanding is that it is possible to force a task to run on a specified node. This by crearting a "dedicated task". That is, a task in a defined "Publisher Group" linked to a QDS node:

http://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/12.1/Subsystems/Server/Content/QlikView%20Server/QVSRM_Clustering_DistributionService.htm

Paul