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Replication Service

The Replication service replicates the attributes of the following objects from the provider (such as Active Directory) to the Elasticsearch repository.

  • Group
  • User
  • Contact
  • Computers
  • Organizational Unit

For more on the Replication service, see the Elasticsearch and Replication topic.

The service is also responsible for syncing data between the Elasticsearch clusters in your environment.

What do you want to do?

View Replication Service Details​

  1. In Admin Center, click Applications in the left pane.

  2. On the Applications page, click the Service tab.
    The tab displays the default Replication service hosted in native IIS. When multiple GroupID instances have been deployed, you will find multiple default Replication services on this tab page, as each instance has its own default Replication service. See the Elasticsearch Clusters, Nodes, and GroupID topic.
    For details displayed on a service card, see the table in the View Data Service Details topic.

    You cannot create a Replication Service or delete an existing one from Admin Center.

Manage Replication Service Settings​

You can manage the following settings for a Replication service:

Enable Elastic Cluster Syncing​

In an environment with multiple Elasticsearch clusters, you can choose to sync data between clusters. You can also specify an interval for syncing.

NOTE: In GroupID, a separate Replication service is created for each node in a cluster. To enable data syncing between clusters, simply enable the sync option for one Replications service within each cluster.

To sync data:

  1. In Admin Center, select Applications in the left pane.
  2. On the Applications page, click the Replication Service tab.
  3. Click the ellipsis button for a service and select Settings.
  4. Click Configurations under Server Settings.
  5. On the Configurations page, enable the Elastic Cluster Syncing toggle button to sync data from all other clusters to the cluster that uses this Replication service.
    If this toggle button is disabled for a cluster (say, ClusterA), data from other clusters will not be synced to ClusterA.
    Suppose syncing is disabled for ClusterA but enabled for ClusterB and ClusterC. This means that (a) data from ClusterB and ClusterC will not be synced to ClusterA (b) data from ClusterA will be synced to ClusterB and ClusterC.
  6. You can specify an interval for syncing data. Click Edit under Elastic Cluster Syncing Interval, specify an interval (in seconds) and click the check mark.
    By default, the interval is set to 5 seconds. You can specify a maximum interval of 900 seconds.
  7. Click Save.

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