TargetServerGroups Collection

The TargetServerGroups collection contains TargetServerGroup objects that classify lists of multiserver administration target servers (TSXs) referenced by the TargetServers collection.

Methods

Add Method	Refresh Method
Item Method	Remove Method (Collections)
ItemByID Method

Remarks

A SQL Server Agent job has an execution target. With Microsoft® SQL Server™ version 7.0, the SQL Server Agent of one server can direct job execution on other instances of SQL Server within an organization. A server directing job execution is a master server (MSX). Each MSX server in an organization can maintain and organize lists of TSXs, called target server groups.

A SQL Server Agent job execution target can be:

• The instance of SQL Server on which a SQL Server Agent is executing.
  
  
• One or more TSX servers, specified using either the names of the TSX servers and/or the names of target server groups.

With the TargetServerGroups collection, you can:

• Create a target server group on a SQL Server Agent acting as an MSX server in an organization.
  
  
• Remove a target server group from an MSX server.

To create a target server group

1. Create a TargetServerGroup object.
   
   
2. Configure the TargetServerGroup object by setting the Name property.
   
   
3. Add the TargetServerGroup object to the TargetServerGroups collection of a JobServer object referencing an MSX server.

To remove a target server group

• Use the Remove method of the TargetServerGroups object, as in:

  oJobServer.TargetServerGroups.Remove("[Seattle_TSX]")

When using the Item or Remove method, the TargetServerGroups collection supports member identification using either name or ordinal reference syntax. For example:

Set oTargetServerGroup = oJobServer.TargetServerGroups("London_TSX")

Or:

Set oTargetServerGroup = oJobServer.TargetServerGroups(2)