Configuring Merge Blackout Periods
- Last Updated: April 15, 2026
- 1 minute read
- MarkLogic Server
- Version 11.0
- Documentation
To configure merge blackout periods, follow these steps:
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Click Databases in the left tree menu. A list of databases appears.
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Click your target database.
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Click the Merge Policy menu item under your database. The Merge Policy page appears.
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Click the Create tab.
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Fill in the form as needed for the blackout period you want to create. Clicking the radio buttons will bring up more forms to complete.
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Click OK to create the blackout period.
The new blackout period takes effect immediately.
Warning:
We recommend configuring a merge blackout with a small limit merges to: size: In a cluster configured for high availability, forests that recover from node restart will remain in wait replication until the next merge. Until that time, the acting primary forest cannot afford to fail over as there is no longer an acting replica with the mount state of sync replicating.