About publishing job scheduling

Efficiently scheduling publishing jobs minimizes publishing job execution times and maximizes Meridian Enterprise Server computer performance.

If clustering is configured, publishing jobs are scheduled on the primary node in the cluster but executed on the secondary node that is assigned to the job. For both single jobs and batch jobs, a single task is added to the Windows Task Scheduler on the primary node. Scheduled tasks should not be modified or deleted in Windows Task Scheduler, only in Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console.

Publishing jobs can be run in the following ways:

• One scheduled task. This is best for single synchronization jobs that must run only once or twice per day.
• One scheduled task that runs multiple publishing jobs combined in one batch. This is best for complex publishing scenarios involving multiple source and destination systems that must run at the same time once or twice per day.

Note    No two publishing jobs may run at the same time on the same computer. A publishing job and a Meridian Explorer synchronization job may run at the same time.

Each of these methods is described in the following topics.