The Taskmaster Fingerprint Service, with actions in the Autodoc actions library, supports the ability to cache and use the fingerprints from one or multiple Taskmaster applications simultaneously. The Fingerprint Service eliminates the fingerprint load time for all but the first batch that is processed by an application.
The first time that a match is requested by an application, the Fingerprint Service loads the fingerprints for that application. When more than one application is set up to use a single Fingerprint Service, the first time each application requests fingerprint matching, the fingerprints for that application are loaded into memory. Subsequent requests for matching work with the fingerprints in the cache in memory. When a matching fingerprint is not found and the application creates a new fingerprint, that new fingerprint is loaded into the cache.
The Taskmaster Fingerprint Service is a web service that is based on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The service can service multiple client requests simultaneously. The Taskmaster Fingerprint Service cache is shared by all threads. Therefore, the single load of fingerprints into the cache for an application is all that is required even when multiple threads are running.
Any application that uses the FindFingerprint action (from the Autodoc.RRX action library) to perform fingerprint matching can use the Fingerprint Service. To use the Fingerprint Service, add the SetFingerprintWebServiceURL action to the application at the batch level before you call the SetFingerprintDir action.
The Taskmaster Fingerprint Service is installed as part of the Rulerunner component and requires additional licensing.
This section provides the information that you need to install and configure the Taskmaster Fingerprint Service in a client/server environment.
