Specialized User Scenarios - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Specialized User Scenarios

The following topics explain how to use the Application Catalog Database Replication feature to best meet your
organization's needs. The following topics are included:
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Using the "Disable" Feature to Subscribe to More Than One Publication
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Overriding the Scheduled Update Day and Time
•
Replicating Application Catalogs in Controlled SQL Database Environments
Using the "Disable" Feature to Subscribe to More Than One Publication
At your organization, it could be beneficial to have more than one Subscription configured in the Subscription
Manager, allowing you to switch from one Subscription to another, even though only one Subscription can be
active and listed in your Application Catalog at any one time: the one that has been executed (updated) the most
recently.
You might want to set up multiple Subscriptions in a situation where an IT group wants to work on a specific group
of applications at a time. For example, an IT group might want to perform conflict analysis on Accounting
applications one week and on Marketing applications the next week. When the IT group finishes work on the
Accounting applications, the "Accounting" Subscription would be disabled and the "Marketing" Subscription
would be enabled. By having multiple Subscriptions configured, local users can quickly switch between tasks.
On the Subscription Manager dialog box, Subscriptions that are enabled are preceded by a check mark ( ),
while disabled Subscriptions are preceded by a red X ( ).
Note • You use the Enable/Disable button on the Subscription Manager dialog box to set the status of each
Subscription to be either Enabled or Disabled. When you disable a Subscription, you are turning off its automatic
update feature. Since Subscriptions are updated automatically, and since all of the currently active Subscription's
data is replaced when a Subscription is updated, if you have multiple Subscriptions, it is to your advantage to
disable all except the one you are currently using. This allows you to work on one set of data and control when that
data is changed. If you have more than one Subscription enabled at a time, when the second enabled Subscription
is automatically updated at its scheduled time, it will replace the data of the Subscription you were currently using.
Overriding the Scheduled Update Day and Time
If you want to manually update either Publication data or Subscription data before its scheduled update time, you
can use the Run button on the Subscription Manager and Publication Manager dialog boxes. Using the Run button
forces the selected Publication or Subscription to refresh itself.
Replicating Application Catalogs in Controlled SQL Database Environments
Some companies that have a controlled SQL database environment prefer to have their database administrators
make major changes to their databases. In this case, you could select the Generate publication as script option on
the Publication Summary Panel
Subscription Summary Panel
code necessary to create this Publication or Subscription rather than actually create it.
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of the Publication Wizard or the Generate subscription as script option on the
of the Subscription Wizard so that the Wizard would generate an SQL script of the
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