Requirements for the Parent Node

You must configure the parent node before you can define a child of the parent node:

• If you implement a single tier of regional nodes, then the headquarters node is the parent node.

• If you implement two or more tiers of regional nodes, then the lower tier references a regional node as the parent node. Two or more tiers of regional nodes is a hierarchy of regional nodes.

  If you implement a regional node whose parent node is another regional node, then you must synchronize the parent node with the headquarters node so that the parent node contains current data. This configuration reduces the amount of data that Replication Manager must replicate after you initialize the regional node.

For more information, see Regional Node.