After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
FME Server is made up of several different components that work together to make it function. As an FME Server Author, you don't need to have a deep understanding of its full architecture.
There are a few components of FME Server that are important for you as an author to be aware of, so we're going to cover those now:
FME Engines process job requests by running FME Workspaces. This is the same core engine, carrying out the same processing that is used by FME Desktop. An FME Server installation can possess multiple engines.
Each FME Engine processes a single request (job) at a time.
FME Server processing can be scaled by connecting additional FME Engines to the Server Core. These FME Engines can run on the same computer as the Core or on separate computers within a distributed FME Server environment.
The FME Server Core manages:
The FME Server Core contains a Software Load Balancer (SLB) that distributes jobs to FME Engines.
Much of the FME Server networking capabilities are handled using what we call "Web Services." These Web Services are software whose interface provides communication between FME Server and clients.
FME Server has a number of services:
Some services (for example, Data Download) are “transformation” services that carry out data transformation, whereas others (for example, Data Upload) are non-transforming "utility" services.