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Planning a Workflow Policy Group

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Workflow policies are organized into groups. A workflow policy group is a collection of workflow policies that provides a means of identifying policies that have similar system requirements, thus facilitating load balancing on the servers and providing scalability. Workflow policy groups allow you to manage and optimize Workflow Agent process performance by grouping similar policies to run under one Workflow Agent process.

Before you create a workflow policy, you must create a workflow policy group. Each Workflow Policy Agent is assigned one workflow policy group. If you are going to run only one Workflow Policy Monitor Agent and one Workflow Policy Action Agent, assign your policies to one policy group.

Reasons to use multiple Workflow Policy Agents include:

• To shorten the lag time between when the policy event is triggered and when Workflow Policies notices the event.
• To spread the workload across multiple application servers.
• To adjust the polling interval so that polling for noncritical policies does not prevent efficient processing of critical policies.

Policies with similar time intervals are generally grouped together. By creating groups of policies with similar time intervals, you can assign the workflow policy group a Workflow Policy Agent with a polling rate that matches the needs of the workflow policies, thereby creating a more efficient use of your resources.

Creating workflow policy groups and using multiple Workflow Policy Agents are part of tuning your system to create the highest performance and can be finished as you monitor your system's performance.

NOTE:  The maximum number of policies in a single policy group is MaxInt. The maximum number of policies in policy groups is determined by the maximum number of records in the S_ESCL_RULE table.