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Replicating Siebel Analytics Web Catalogs

Siebel Analytics can copy and merge contents of selected catalog folders between Siebel Analytics Web servers. The replication configuration can be split into individual tasks. The replication task is an instruction to periodically merge catalog contents for specified catalog folders from one server to another. Two-way replications are possible.

A typical scenario where replication is useful is when you use one Siebel Analytics Web server to prepare and publish shared reports, and use two or more production servers to support the users. In this scenario you share the catalog from Server 1 to two production servers and then share the catalogs on each productions server with the other. To accomplish this you set up the following replication tasks in the Siebel Analytics Web Replication Agent's (sawrepa) configuration file:

• /shared: Server1 to Server2
• /shared: Server1 to Server3
• /users: Server2 to Server3
• /users: Server3 to Server2

When a Siebel Analytics Web server participates in replication, either as a publisher or subscriber, it tracks changes made to catalog items that are marked as "Replicate" and keeps them internally in the change log. Another Siebel Analytics Web server can make a SOAP call to request to export those changes to a file or to import and replay modifications recorded in a file exported earlier from another server. The Siebel Analytics Web Replication Agent uses SOAP to manage replication related activities on all Siebel Analytics Web servers and performs import and export operations. For information on the SOAP calls used, read Siebel Analytics Web Services Guide.