USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Examples of specifying replication settings for multiple replicas
Note Do not use the server's common name when replicating servers. Only the server's full hierarchical name should be used during server-to-server replication. This applies to all instances of server-to-server replication. For example, when replicating from the server console, Connection documents, or from the IBM® Lotus® Domino® Administrator.

Using the same replication settings for all destination servers

The Acme Corporation has a database called Technical Support on the server Support-E/East/Acme, which it uses to post information about customer problems and problem resolutions. The database displays customer suggestions made during the support calls in a view called Customer Suggestions. Acme has three servers at satellite sales offices: Sales-Bos-E/East/Acme, Sales-Phil-E/East/Acme, and Sales-Hart-E/East/Acme. The satellite sales offices are only interested in customer suggestions and not in other details of technical support calls. Therefore, Acme replicates only the contents of the Customer Suggestions view to these servers. To accomplish this, it completes the replication settings dialog box on the Technical Support database on Support-E/East/Acme as follows. Note that although the "When computer" box shows only Sales-Bos-E/East/Acme, there are similar settings for Sales-Phil-E/East/Acme and Sales-Hart-E/East/Acme.

Using separate replication settings for each destination server

The Acme Corporation has a database called Sales Leads on the server Sales-E/East/Acme. Acme has three servers at satellite sales offices: Sales-Bos-E/East/Acme, Sales-Phil-E/East/Acme, and Sales-Hart-E/East/Acme. Each satellite sales office is only interested in leads pertaining to its area. Each document in the Sales Leads database includes the field "Office" with one of these keywords selected: Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford. To replicate only sales leads pertaining to Boston to Sales-Bos-E/East/Acme, Acme completes the replication settings dialog box on the Sales Leads database on Sales-E/East/Acme.

Acme sets up replication from Sales-E/East/Acme to Sales-Phil-E/East/Acme and to Sales-Hart-E/East/Acme in a similar fashion.

Although these examples describe server-to-server replication, you could use similar settings to configure replication between a central source replica and replicas on IBM® Lotus® Notes® clients. For example, salespeople could replicate directly with the source replica and receive only leads pertinent to their areas. To accomplish this, specify Notes users' hierarchical names as destination servers.

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