Some jobs are more important than others, or, some jobs should be executed on a dedicated server. To be able to support those use cases we introduced the new priority job server feature. A new role for servers has been introduced: PRIORITY_JOB_SERVER. This role can be added to the NetworkConfiguration.xml file. Additionally, a new preference has been added:

Only job types that are declared as "priority jobs" using this preference will be routed to the priority job servers, as long as the current network has at least one priority job server.

If there is no priority server currently running, the job will be executed like any other job.

For more information about the list of available job types, see the Server Job Types section in the Configuration Manual.

Please note that this priority logic is only available with the out-of-the-box resource-based (default) or round-robin distribution logic. If there are multiple priority servers, the jobs will be distributed among those.

A server node can be

PRIORITY_JOB_SERVER

as well as

JOB_SERVER

in which case priority jobs will only be forwarded to this server, but normal jobs will be assigned to this server as well, based on the distribution algorithm.