Re: Synchronization of Primary Sites not working

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If the packages you need to send down are to big for the network links
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sites.

Kim Oppalfens
MVP SMS
In article <DDE0E158-A517-44D0-B09C-02EE14A9B82A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JoseHolguin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> I'm having a similar issue and I think it has to do with copying big Software
> Packages.
>
> We have SMS 2003 with SP1 on Windows 2003 servers.
>
> Then, 1 Primary Central Site, 2 Primary Child Sites reporting to the Central
> Site and 73 Secondary Child Sites connected via 128Kbps links all reporting
> to one of the Primary Child Sites. All the clients are Advanced and assigned
> to the Primary Child sites.
>
> Every Collection, Package, Advertisement, Report, etc. is created at the
> Central Site and then distributed down the hierarchy. Since we started
> copying the 800 MBs Images to the Secondary Sites, its Primary Parent Site
> stopped reporting any kind of status and discovery data records to the
> Central Site. However, any change I make at the Central Site is replicated to
> both of the Primary childs. This happened once before and I remember Images
> were also being copied to Secondary Sites.
>
> It seems that the sender of the Primary Child puts the replication jobs in
> some kind of queue and until the images are finished copying to the Secondary
> Sites the Primary Site won't send the replication to the Cental Site.
>
> In the replmgr.log I get the following message:
>
> There are jobs to site CTR (Central Site) of the same priority waiting to be
> sent, won't send this batch.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong since I'm just making assumptions. But if I'm
> not, is there a way this issue can be avoided?
> I tried changing the Image Package Distribution Sending Priority to low, but
> it doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> If I unjoin - rejoin the sites, won't I have any problems with the packages,
> collections, advertisements, etc.?
>
> "MSMK" wrote:
>
> > Thanks Luke. That seemed to do the job.
> >
> > "Luke Packard [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> > > Unjoin the sites, run preinst /delsite, then rejoin the sites.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Luke Packard [MSFT]
> > >
> > > SMS 2003 Technical FAQ:
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/techfaq/default.mspx
> > > SMS 2003 Scenarios and Procedures Planning and Deployment Guide:
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0644BB4-2336-4254-8A18-9BC180713F7E&displaylang=en.

--
Kim Oppalfens
SMS MVP
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