Communications Processes

Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.

Communications processes are responsible for listeners. When you add a new enterprise server instance, it is created with one communications process, containing listeners for the two system services. You then add further listeners as required to deal with the expected workload of the enterprise server instance. Once you have the process defined as you want, you can create additional communications processes by copying the existing one. The advantages of having more than one communications process are: