Creating and Managing Hierarchical Relationships
You create a hierarchy by creating a series of parent-to-child and child-to-parent relationships that link together the Notification Server computers in your system. You can add your Notification Server (the one that you are logged into, which may be a remote logon) to a hierarchy as a child of an existing remote Notification Server, or as its parent.
You can add your Notification Server (the one that you are logged on to, which may be a remote logon) to a hierarchy as a child of an existing remote Notification Server computer, or as its parent. To create a hierarchical relationship, you require a Symantec Administrator account (or an account with equivalent privileges) on both computers. To add or remove Notification Server computers from a hierarchy, you need the
Manage Hierarchy Topology
privilege on the Notification Server computer where the action is carried out. You can view and configure the Notification Server computer hierarchy using the Symantec Management Console. If you are the Hierarchy administrator, you can see only the parent and children of your Notification Server.
Note that all actions that you take are based on your Notification Server. Right-clicking a Notification Server computer does not perform a remote logon to any remote Notification Server computers. It opens a context menu containing the actions that you can perform on that server, which is different for local and remote computers. A full set of actions is available for the local server, but only a limited set is available for remote servers. Actions such as extracting reports are performed on the appropriate database.
The actions that you can perform on the hierarchy are relative to your Notification Server computer, which is the computer that you are logged on to. If you have the
Manage Hierarchy
privilege on a remote Notification Server computer, you can perform a remote logon to that computer. You can then open the Symantec Management Console, and perform hierarchy configuration relative to that computer. You can enable or disable hierarchy replication on specific Notification Server computers at any time. For example, you can use this facility to temporarily disable hierarchy replication during maintenance tasks such as solution installation, upgrades, or uninstallation. Disabling the replication on one Notification Server computer does not affect the replication schedule on the other Notification Server computers in the hierarchy. However, no data is passed through the disabled computer, so replication down stops at the parent, and replication up stops at the children.
A colored symbol on the
Hierarchy Management
page indicates any hierarchy alerts. The colors that you might see and the corresponding alert status are as follows:Yellow | Low alert status. |
Orange | Medium alert status. |
Red | Critical alert status. For example, if you attempt to replicate the same data both up and down the hierarchy from the same Notification Server computer, a critical alert is raised. Data should be replicated one way only. If the parent or the child Notification Server computer has the same hierarchy replication rules implemented, or you could set up a data clash. |
This task is a step in the process for implementing Notification Server hierarchy.
- To create and manage hierarchical relationships
- In the Symantec Management Console, on theSettingsmenu, clickNotification Server > Hierarchy.
- On theHierarchy Managementpage, on theTopologytab, perform any of the following tasks:Add a new Notification Server to a hierarchyModify a hierarchical relationship between two Notification ServersEnable or disable hierarchy replicationYou may want to disable hierarchy participation when you perform maintenance on a Notification Server.Right-click the Notification Server computer on which you want to enable or disable hierarchy replication, and clickEnable ReplicationorDisable Replication.Disabling hierarchy replication affects the hierarchy replication schedule only. It has no effect on any stand-alone replication that has been set up to or from another Notification Server.Manually synchronizing the hierarchy does not change this setting, but overrides it to perform a once-only replication of the appropriate items.Manually override the hierarchy replication schedule for a Notification ServerRun a hierarchy reportRight-click the Notification Server computer for which you want to check the report, clickReports, and then click the report that you want to view.Remove a Notification Server from the hierarchyRight-click the Notification Server computer that you want to remove, and then click Remove.
- ClickSave changes.