Helix Core Server Administrator Guide: Multi-Site Deployment (2019.1)

General guidelines

Follow these guidelines to simplify the administration and maintenance of your multi-sit environments:

  • Assign a server ID to every server
    • it is best if the serverID is the same as the server name
    • use the p4 servercommand to identify each server in your network.
  • Assign a service user name to every server by using the p4 server command
    • this simplifies the reading of logs and provides authentication and audit trails for inter-server communication
    • each service user name should be unique
    • assign service users strong passwords (see "strong passwords" at p4 password)
  • Configure each server to reject operations that reduce its disk space below the limits defined by that service’s filesys.*.min configurables, such as filesys.depot.min.
  • Monitor the integrity of your replicas by using the integrity.csv structured server log and the p4 journaldbchecksums command. See Verifying replica integrity.