Node types

Pega Platform provides a set of node types. You can associate these node types with agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors to optimize resources and improve performance.

Node type Description Configuration string
BackgroundProcessing Runs the agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors on a background node. -DNodeType=BackgroundProcessing
BIX Runs agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors on a BIX node for BIX jobs. -DNodeType=BIX
Search Runs the agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors on a search node for search jobs. -DNodeType=Search
WebUser Runs the agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors on a web user node for web user jobs. -DNodeType=WebUser
Stream Runs agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors on a Stream node for Stream jobs. -DNodeType=Stream
Universal Runs all the agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors on that node. -DNodeType=Universal
Custom1, Custom2, Custom3, Custom4, Custom5 Additional five node types that can be used for other purposes. Each custom node runs the agents, listeners, job schedulers, and queue processors associated with this node type. -DNodeType=Custom1, -DNodeType=Custom2, -DNodeType=Custom3, -DNodeType=Custom4, -DNodeType=Custom5
Default If you do not assign a node type, the system associates this node with the default node types. -DNodeType=WebUser,BackgroundProcessing,Search,Stream