From the management console, you can configure various properties for a database enabled for Replication. The options you have in the console for configuring these Replication-related properties depend upon the following rules:

  • For a database notenabled for Replication:
    • If the Replication property file does not exist, no Replication links are available.
    • If the Replication property file does exist but is empty, a Server (create new) link and an Agent (create new) link appear.
      Note: You can configure transition only when one of these groups exists.
    • If the Replication property file does exist and is not empty, then all groups defined in the property file appear.
  • For a database enabled for Replication:
    • If the Replication property file does not exist, Replication-related links still appear. However, you can create only the group for which the database is enabled. In other words, you can create the Server group for source-enabled databases and the Agent group for target-enabled databases.
    • If the Replication property file does exist, only the groups that are applicable to the database enablement appear. For source enablement, Server, ctrl-agents, and transition appear. For target enablement, Agent and transition appear.
    • If the Transition group database-role is set to reverse, you either see the existing group for the reverse role or are allowed to create a new group for the reverse role.
    • If you specify Alternate buffer pool blocks for a Replication target database, the property setting is ignored.