Hierarchy and Replication Digest

Products

• IT Management Suite
• Client Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

 Common questions and references guides for Hierarchy and Replication

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Resolution

The following article contains some useful references regarding known issues, best practices, and things that are good to know regarding Hierarchy and Replication with Symantec Management Platform.

USEFUL KBs:
Hierarchy - Frequently Asked Questions
Reference scenario: Scaling up to 50K client computers on a single Notification Server
SQL Query that will show where the contents of the AgentBlackList table originate from
Upgrading Notification Servers in a hierarchy
How to change the path for Replication's temp folders from the default location?
Does Asset Management or CMDB Solutions support hierarchy and stand-alone replication rules?
Replicated computer resources are also purged on Parent server in case they are purged from Child server


CONFIGURATION/SETTINGS:
Setting up a Hierarchical Relationship Between Two Notification Server Computers
Replication Core Settings Guide


TROUBLESHOOTING:
152826“Replication Data from failed or hung jobs is not cleaned up automatically.” 
155630 “Purging Maintenance on child NS - Parent Setting overwriting Child settings”
153068 "Resource Status is being overwritten on the Parent server in hierarchy or when Basic Inventory is received"
181015 "Schedules and Targets changes for Policies are not getting replicated to the Child NS in the Hierarchy"


HOW THINGS WORK:
181809 "Are hierarchy replicated resources which are deleted at the parent NS also deleted at the child NS on subsequent replications?"
185262 "Limitations of hierarchy"
180292 "What 'HierarchySingularTask' table is and how it is used within an Hierarchy?"
180293 "How Replicating Items works within an Hierarchy?"
180294 "How Hierarchy Editable Properties (HEPs) works within an Hierarchy?"
180295 "How replicating computers works within an Hierarchy?"
180297 "How Resource Merging works within an Hierarchy?"
180298 "Relocation of Software Components – Bi-directional Hierarchy rules" **
180300 "What are the Hierarchy Alerts types within an Hierarchy?"
180301 "How Replicating Events works within in an Hierarchy?"
180302 "Data Verification within an Hierarchy"
184140 "Purpose of 'ItemImportMethod' table and how it is used within an Hierarchy"
180303 "What are the Replication States?"
156881 “How to replicate custom data classes down a hierarchy”
181118 “How to replicate the contents of a custom data class up to a top level Symantec Management Platform server”
180316 "Replication Job Timeouts and Back off and retry of Replication Jobs"
181645 "How to disable replication of the Symantec Management Agent push settings (Symantec Management Agent Install)?"
150137 "Discover the reason why an item is not replicable"
178563 "How Purging works in a Hierarchy?"


Package Replication:
180299 "Package Replication within a Hierarchy"
178453 "How does Hierarchy work with the Software Library and package replication?"
181807 "When replicating a package, what exactly is replicated?"
181808 "How does a replicated package get distributed to child Package Servers?"
 

Security Roles:
180291 "Things to know regarding Replication of Security Objects"
211634 "Security Role Replication is not replicating any privileges"
180306 "Why Item actions and right click menu actions are not replicated when used 'Replicate Now' on Security Roles?"
162938 "The Symantec Administrators Role Membership is not syncing between servers"


Miscellaneous:
180775 "Replication Core Settings Guide"
180771 "Breaking Hierarchy"
184143 "Why we have the requirement to always have a Package Server for each SMP in a Hierarchy? Can we work without it?"
177076 ""A non-fatal exception occured during replication" - The operation has timed out"
152672 "A non-fatal exception occured during replication. The remote server does not appear to be responding"
170733 "A non-fatal exception occured during replication. The replication job will be restarted from the last checkpoint"
159026 "A non-fatal exception occured during replication."