so I have setup 2 node domino cluster which will be used for BES 5.0 standby server, I have 2 questions about initial setup:1. I think I flip thru some page basicaly telling me that if I have any replication document between servers in cluster and other domino servers that are not in this cluster I should remove and server to server replications that existed before setting up cluster and use server to cluster name (not individual server in cluster) replication I cannot find this any more in help files is that true?
I’m assuming although cluster was created and working it only replicate automatically those databases both nodes have in common i.e. names.nsf, admi4.nsf but no others is since we are going to use this mainly for BES standby so all I real care is BES related databases and names.nsf all bes related databases are in \BES\State folder, is there console tell commend to do this all at once? entire folder and its databases?
I think I flip thru some page basicaly telling me that if I have any replication document between servers in cluster and other domino servers that are not in this cluster I should remove and server to server replications that existed before setting up cluster and use server to cluster name (not individual server in cluster) replication I cannot find this any more in help files is that true? You can leave any existing replication documents between other domino servers and servers that are in the cluster… They will still work just fine… Optionally you can add new replication documents between servers outside the Cluster and the Cluster itself if you like… The code is smart enough to match replicas and only replicate a database with single clustermate and find an available clustermate if any happen to be down…
I’m assuming although cluster was created and working it only replicate automatically those databases both nodes have in common i.e. names.nsf, admi4.nsf but no others is since we are going to use this mainly for BES standby so all I real care is BES related databases and names.nsf all bes related databases are in \BES\State folder, is there console tell commend to do this all at once? entire folder and its databases?
You certainly can setup scheduled replication between the two cluster mates to only replicate particular databases and/or folders if that is what you are asking… Schedule replication is still required even in a cluster for situations where the cluster replicator was not able to push all of it’s changes (only stored in memory) to other cluster mate before it crashed. The scheduled replication helps keep things in sycn.
Only Databases with the same Replic-ID will be replicated within a cluster (auto). The replication is “session-based” this means, when a doc is added, deleted or edited on one server the clusterreplicator dist. this to the cluster members.
To manage which databases should be available in the cluster you first have to replicate them to the server(s) where they should be available. The systemdatabases names.nsf and admin4.nsf where dist. during installation of a new server by the installationprocess.
to manage what databases should be replicated by the clusterreplicator or not you use the Clusterdatabasedirectory (CLDBDIR.NSF). You can open this DB or you use it with the Lotus Domino Administation Client - Tab Configuration.
In this Database you can configure which database should be replicated by the clusterreplicator, set a database offline for users and you can check what applications are available within the cluster.
I was looking at this before and I can see list of both databases some of them i.e. activity, admin4, AgentRunner are listed twice one time for each node but others are listed only once for particular node so do I have to replicate all of these? if so same question can I create replicas of all databases in particular folder via commend line or do I have to create replicas manually one at a time?
perhaps I’m not clear on what I’m trying to accomplish I know how to replicate single database between servers, I know I can right click folder and use create replica between servers which will take all databases in particular folder what is missing is that in this operation when you select entire folder the only selected option down below on this screen is “copy ACL” but per BES requirments I also need to maintain unred marks between replicas and in abve decribed process “Exchange unred marks on replication” is unchecked and grayed out
is there any other way of crating replicas of multiple databases and at the same time set properties to echange unred marks?
Select multiple files from the Domino administrator. Under Tools, select Database | Advanced Properties. Here you can select to manage unread marks just with the clustered server on all database file names you have selected. Then replicate them.