Running all workflows on a dedicated application server

[Soady, Phil]

Hi Stephan,
is it the workflows, or the approach to running IDOCs that is the issue ?
Ie RBDDAPP01 can be run in such a way that the IDOCs are processed on
a specific server serially.
 
The IDOC processing triggers workflow for technical errors
based on brief code analysis.
See function IDOC_ERROR_WORKFLOW_START
it calls
CALL FUNCTION 'IDOC_ERROR_WORKFLOW_START_R'
        in background task
 
Note no Destination group 'XYZ'.
Ie no chance to place it on a server group.
And no Destination statement at all.. Ie as the current user on current server.
 
 
Looks to me after a quick check that it is the where the IDOC
is processed that is decisive in this matter.
 
Phil Soady
Senior Consultant - Business Technologies
Professional Services
SAP Australia
Level 1, 168 Walker Street, North Sydney 2060, Australia.
M   +61 412 213 079
E   phil.soady at sap.com
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Becker, Stephan
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:28 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Running all workflows on a dedicated application server
 
 
Hi everyone,
 
We are trying to spec out a production system with several thousand users and a substantial amount of EDI/Workflow traffic.
 
I would like to divert all workflow traffic to a dedicated application server (eg to prevent peak load when an EDI batch hits the system and starts loads of workflows that would block all available dialog and background tasks for a while) and am wondering about the best way to do this and any experiences out there:
 
-          I have tried to assign a reference RFC destination to the
WORKFLOW_LOCAL_nnn logical destination, with the reference destination (type R/3 connection) pointing to the background server logon group. However, I am still getting the RFC call to the app server I create the event from..
-          The other way seems to be to assign an RFC destination in the
event linkage (SWE2). Apart from the fact that this would have to be done per event linkage, what's the difference?
 
Thanks in advance for your help,
Regards,
Stephan