Create a File Collaboration or Synchronization Job from a DFS Namespace Folder

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Create a File Collaboration or Synchronization Job from a DFS Namespace Folder

You can create a File Collaboration or File Synchronization job from a DFS namespace folder. These steps require that a DFS namespace has been already created and is being managed by the PMC.  Collaboration and synchronization jobs can be created only with a namespace folder that has at least two folder targets.

1.From the Jobs view, open the DFS-N Management job managing the namespace.

The job's namespace management view appears.

2.In the Namespace tab, right-click the desired namespace folder and select Create Replication Job.

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The Create New Job wizard appears.  The two supported job types are listed:  File Collaboration and File Synchronization.  All other job types are not supported for use with DFS namespace management.

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3.Select a job type:

Select File Collaboration if locking is required in additional to synchronization (for example, for data sets with shared project files).

Select File Synchronization if no locking is required (for example, with home directory and user profile datasets).

The New Job wizard appears.  The Participants page is slightly different than the standard New Job wizard.

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4.Click the Add button.

The Host Selection dialog appears.

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5.Select two or more available Agents to add to this collaboration or synchronization job.

6.Click OK.

The selected Agents are added to the Host Participants table.

7.Click Auto Match Root to automatically match a participant with the appropriate namespace folder target.

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8.If an Agent has talked to that file server before, the Detector Type column will be auto-populated.

9.If this is the first collaboration or synchronization job created with these Agents, you may need to populate the Root Path column manually.

If using a Windows file server, the Root Path should be the local path on that file server that corresponds to the share path of the folder target.  You must also select Windows in the Detector Type column.

If using a non-Windows NAS device, this path should match the Namespace Folder Target.  You will also need to select the appropriate storage platform from the Detector Type column.  After selecting the storage platform, you will need to press the Edit Detector Settings to enter the required settings for your selected platform.

10.Once all participants are added and associated with folder targets, click Next.  

11.(Optional) In the File Metadata page, enable file metadata replication, and then click Next.

12.(Optional) In the Application Support page, select the applications you want optimized, and then click Next

13.(Optional) In the Email Alerts page, select the emails alerts to apply to the job.

14.Click Finish to complete the creation of this  job.

15.From this point forward, if this collaboration or synchronization job is running along with its paired Namespace job, the PMC will automatically failover and failback folder targets.