Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

We have a test environment and a production environment. A ton of users meant we had to end up creating a few custom security roles. We have great success using stand alone replication rules to migrate items from test to production. The only thing we are seing a problem with is security permissions.

• Stand alone security role replication rules work great.
• Stand alone security privilege rules work great.
• There is not a security permission rule.

The KB article Standalone Security Replication options:  http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO77236 specifically states "These do NOT replicate permissions that the selected roles have permissions on."

Additional research indicates that item permissions are replicated when Notification Servers are in a hierarchy. Our observations prove this to be 100% correct. There does not appear to be any article about replicating from one NS to another when they are not in a hiearchy.

Does anyone have any suggestions for getting item permissions to replicate from one NS to another when they are not in a hieracrchy? We have no desire to make production a child of the test environment and creating a multi-tier hieararchy.

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.

When you create an Item replication rule, you are provided with three options, one of which is "Replicate Security Only (Security configuration for all the selected items is replicated.)".  I believe that this option will allow you to achieve your goal.