service invocation

The precise definition of service invocation for your system depends on your Pegasystems license and the Data-Admin-License instance identified in the System instance, and may not match the definition provided here. For official documentation, contact Global Customer Support.

A service invocation is a call from any external system to execute a Rule-Service-* rule in your application that creates, updates, or operates on a work item. When counting service invocations, it does not matter whether the application sends a response to the service request.

For example, a License Compliance facility can count a service invocation when all the following occur:

• A service request is received from an external system.
• The service request requires authentication.
• The License Type field on the Security tab of the Operator ID instance used for authentication is set to Invocation.
• The Method is read-only check box on the Service tab of the service rule form is not checked.

Service BPEL rules and Service Portlet rules can be exceptions; these are not counted as service invocations. Special rules apply to counting service invocations from Service File rule executions.

Important: The rule type Rule-Service-BPEL is deprecated. As appropriate, migrate to Service SOAP rules.

To see a chart of period-by-period counts of service invocations on your system, selectDesigner Studio> System > License> Services Invocation Chart.

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