Re: Enterprise Replication, hour syncronization

--- f.veroni@strhold.it wrote: > Hi all, > > I should implement an installation of Informix ER > with 12 servers. > I'm afraid of the right syncronization between all > the 12 servers, 8 > Linux SUSE, 4 Linux SUSE on VMWare and 4 Windows OS > that accomodate the > virtual machines. > > About the hour sync: > how many seconds/minutes of hour difference are > accepted from the > replication? > If one or more servers have different hours (in > terms of some > minutes...) the replication faults? > > Thank you, > Francesco > The time synchronization of all 12 servers is important if you plan on using timestamp conflict resolution, refer to page 2-13 of the IDS 10 Enterprise Replication Guide. Even if you don't use the timestamp conflict resolution there is a limit to how far off the times can be on each server. I think that the max is only a few minutes but I know that an hour is way to much difference unless the servers are in different time zones, ER converts all of its timestamps to GMT. You should read the ER Guide which you can find in the IBM library http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/ sending to informix-list