Replication Configuration Settings

Chapter 4 Understanding Replication

Full Resynchronization

Full Resynchronization means that the slave has missed more transactions than are stored in the master's replication archive and cannot be resynchronized automatically. There is no automatic full-resynchronization mechanism in Access Registrar's configuration replication feature. To perform a full resynchronization, refer to the Cisco Access Registrar User’s Guide.

Understanding Hot-Configuration

Hot-Configuration is the process of reflecting configuration changes made to Access Registrar's internal configuration database in the in-memory configuration of the executing Access Registrar server. Hot-Configuration is accomplished without interruption of RADIUS request processing. For example, if an administrator uses aregcmd to configure a new client and issues a save command, when the prompt returns, the newly configured client may send requests to Access Registrar.

Hot-Configuration minimizes the down-time associated with having to restart an Access Registrar server to put configuration changes into effect. With the Hot-Configuration feature, a restart is only necessary when a Session Manager, Resource Manager or Remote Server configuration is modified. These configuration elements may not be hot-configured because they maintain state (an active session, for example) and cannot be modified without losing the state information they maintain. Changes to these configuration elements require a restart of Access Registrar to put them into effect.

Hot-Configuration is not associated with the replication feature. Hot-Configuration’s only connection to the replication feature is that when a change is replicated to the slave, the slave is hot-configured to reflect the replicated change as if an administrator had used aregcmd to make the changes directly on the slave server.

Replication’s Impact on Request Processing

The replication feature was designed to perform replication of transactions with minimal impact on RADIUS request processing. When a transaction is received by a slave, RADIUS requests are queued while the transaction is applied to the slave. Once the transaction is complete, RADIUS request processing resumes.

The impact on RADIUS request processing is a direct result of the size of a transaction. The smaller the transaction the lesser the impact, and the larger the transaction, the greater the impact. In other words, when making changes to the master, frequent saves are better than making lots of changes and then saving. Each change is one transaction element and all changes involved in a save comprise a single transaction with one element per change. Since the replication feature only impacts RADIUS request processing when changes are made, the impact under normal operation (when changes are not being made) is virtually unmeasurable.

This section describes each replication configuration setting. In aregcmd, replication settings are found in //localhost/Radius/Replication.

Cisco Access Registrar 3.5 Concepts and Reference Guide

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3.5 specifications

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