Windchill System Administrator's Guide

• Creating Content Replication rules and schedule items -- After the sites are set
up, the usual sequence is to create Content Replication rules to control the
types of content that is replicated to replica sites. These rules can be created or
modified at any time. You create scheduling items to specify when replication
from master sites to replica sites occurs These rules can be created or
modified at any time. Content Replication is a resource-intensive process.
• Troubleshooting -- If configuration included errors, examining log files can
help in finding the errors.
• Performance improvement -- The Content Cache Server and Local Upload are
features that improve Content Replication performance experience. Small
configuration tasks are needed to gain the benefits of these features
This documentation describes both the properties and services in the wt.properties
file that are relevant to Windchill Content Replication. If replication configuration
contains an error, log files created by the services provide information for
troubleshooting. The log files show all the interactions between master sites and
replica sites. In the case of some errors, the log files list suggestions to solve the
problem.
You can accomplish many of the operations explained in this chapter through a
command line interface that is explained in another chapter, Configuring External
File Vaulting or Replication With FvLoader.
Setting Up Sites and Keys
Starting file vault service generates a site named Master, and modifying the name
or URL of that site is a possible, but not normally needed procedure. This
procedure is discussed in the following section, Modifying the Local Site.
You create sites that relate to the local site as its master site or as its replica sites.
Creating a master site is explained in the later section, Creating the Master Site.
Then you generate replica sites as described in the later section, Creating a
Replica Site. After creating the replica sites, you make public keys from the
master site available to each replica site, as explained in the later section, Creating
and Placing Security Keys.
The installation of replica sites is discussed in the later section, About Installing
Two Types of Replica Sites and two sections that follow it, Installing a Full-scale
Replica Site and Installing a Lightweight Replica Site.
After master and replica sites have been installed, they require some
configuration. The configuration of replica sites includes importing keys. Site
configuration is discussed in the later sections Master Configuration and Replica
Configuration.
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