Moving The Changelog To A New Location; Initializing Consumers - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.0 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

1. In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
2. Select the Replication Agreements folder in the left navigation tree and then the Supplier
Server Settings tab in the right pane.
3. Clear the Enable Changelog checkbox.
This deletes the changelog.
4. Click Save.
5. Restart the Directory Server.
6. Reinitialize the consumers, as in
NOTE
If the changelog is removed, the consumer servers must be reinitialized.

8.9.2. Moving the Changelog to a New Location

To delete the changelog while the server is still running and continuing to log changes, simply move
the changelog to a new location. By moving the changelog, a new changelog is created in the
specified directory, and the old changelog is deleted. Changing the location of the changelog requires
consumer reinitialization.

8.10. Initializing Consumers

Once a replication agreement is created, the consumer must be initialized; that is, the data must
be physically copied from the supplier server to the consumer servers. This section first describes
consumer initialization in detail and then provides instructions on the two different methods for
initializing consumers.
NOTE
Replication will not begin until the consumer is initialized.
Section 8.10.1, "When to Initialize a Consumer"
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Section 8.10.2, "Online Consumer Initialization Using the Console"
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Section 8.10.3, "Initializing Consumers Online Using the Command Line"
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Section 8.10.4, "Manual Consumer Initialization Using the Command Line"
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Section 8.10.5, "Filesystem Replica Initialization"
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Section 8.10, "Initializing
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