Remote distributed mode In remote distributed mode, the GRE daemon and DVMrunning report application are on different machines. Remote distributed mode architectureThis topic shows the architecture for running reports in remote distributed mode. Setting up remote distributed modeThis topic shows how to set up your system to run reports in remote distributed mode.Start the Web server serviceIf you are running the GRE daemon on a different machine than the DVM, and the output type is either "PDF", "RTF", "XLS", "XLX" or "HTML" (as specified by the fgl_report_selectDevice function), you must set up the environment before you can preview reports.