# IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin.CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibility

Location: [gRPC API](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/index.md) > [Administration API](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/admin/index.md) > [Background operations](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin/index.md)

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Badges: `Administration API / specialized` `internal: not for applications` `admin` `session` `idempotent`

Tells whether this server is the one in a multi-server vault that runs the reporting data
exports, and claims that role if no server has it.

- **Service:** [Background operations](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin/index.md) `MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin`
- **gRPC method:** `/MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin/CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibility`
- **HTTP (mf-http-grpc):** `POST /grpc/v1/check-and-register-multi-server-responsibility`
- **Request:** [`CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibilityRequest`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin/CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibility/index.md#request)
- **Response:** [`CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibilityResponse`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin/CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibility/index.md#response)
- **Book and level:** Administration API, specialized
- **Kind:** admin
- **Session:** Required: the session ID from LogIn in the mfiles-session-id-bin metadata.
- **Idempotent:** yes
- **Returns metadata structure version:** no
- **Streaming:** none (unary)

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## Remarks

**For M-Files components only.** M-Files Reporting Data Services calls it so that only one
server of a multi-server vault runs the data exports. Applications should not call it.

- Requires a vault session and the server right `manage_jobs` (system administrator server
  role).
- On a single server it always returns true. In multi-server mode only the operation ID
  `mfdataexport` is accepted; other IDs fail with "The parameter is incorrect.".

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## Request: CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibilityRequest

> Nested message fields are expanded to depth 3; follow a type link for deeper levels and for the type's own page.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `operation_id` | `string` | ID of the operation to check. |

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## Response: CheckAndRegisterMultiServerResponsibilityResponse

> Nested message fields are expanded to depth 3; follow a type link for deeper levels and for the type's own page.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `is_responsible` | `bool` | Receives true if this server machine is responsible of requested operation. |