Identity Resolution Service (IRS) Federation
When an Experience Service receives a query for Experiences associated with a ThingMark, it responds as follows:
1. The Experience Service collects any Experiences hosted locally that are associated with that ThingMark.
2. If the ThingMark does not belong to the domain assigned to the Experience Service and the Experience Service is federated, it then forwards the query to the GXI to collect any Experiences hosted by the Experience Service assigned to that domain.
3. The Experience Service returns the union of the two sets of Experiences to the client that submitted the query.
An
Experience Service can be configured to be federated or not federated. When an
Experience Service is federated, it performs Step 2. If the
Experience Service is not federated, then it does not perform Step 2 and only returns Experiences that are hosted locally. The
enable_irs_federation configuration parameter is used to determine whether an
Experience Service is federated or not. For more information about configuring the
enable_irs_federation configuration parameter, see
Configuration Parameters.