Endpoint Protection

Hey,

I was just involved in a discussion with a fellow-engineer about SEP replication. 

One of us thinks that replication is a settering that allows changes made at the server level to "replicate" to other servers in the SEP cluster.

The other opinion is that the replication takes place at the database level, and therefore is configured between different 'sites' that therefore must be using different databases.

What's the correct answer?

The Replication occurs between the two different sites i.e ( Database) hence its a Database level.:)

Database Replication happens at the SEPM level using the process svchost.exe on port 8443 (server console port)

This could be verified by installing 3 SEPMs as replication partners...

1. 1st on SQL 2005
2. 2nd on Embedded Database
3. 3rd on SQL 2000

You would notice that replication works perfect even when the DBs are different


So the SEPMs replicate and not databases, to summarize > SEPMs replicate information > which is then written into the database at each location


Thanks :-)