Customizing the Replication Server Definition

When you define a replication server, you can change the following aspects of the server in the replication environment:

• Synchronize the new server's global catalog with another Enterprise Replication server. For information on the global catalog, see Global Catalog.

  For all servers except the first server you define in your Enterprise Replication system, you must use the --sync=sync_server option in your server definition to synchronize the global catalog with an existing server.

  For Hierarchical Routing (HR) topologies, Enterprise Replication also uses the synchronization server as the parent of the new server in the current topology. For example, if you add a new server kauai and synchronize its global catalog with hawaii, kauai is connected to hawaii in the Enterprise Replication topology. For information on topologies, see Choosing a Replication Network Topology.

• Set the idle timeout.

  To specify the time (in minutes) that you want to allow the connection between two Enterprise Replication servers to remain idle before disconnecting, use the --idle=timeout option.

• Specify the location of the ATS and RIS directories.

  To use ATS, specify the directory for the Aborted Transaction Spooling (ATS) files for the server using --ats=dir or--ris=dir .

  For more information, see Creating ATS and RIS Directories.

• Specify the type of server if you are using hierarchical replication:
  • To specify the server as a nonroot server, use --nonroot.
  • To specify the server as a leaf server, use --leaf.

  If neither --leaf nor --nonroot is specified, the server is defined as a root server.

For more information, see cdr define server.