Configuring Merge Blackout Periods
To configure merge blackout periods, follow these steps:
In the Admin Interface tree menu, click the Databases > db_name link, where db_name is the name of the database in which you want to specify merge blackout periods.
Click the Merge Policy menu item under your database. The Merge Policy Configuration page appears.
Click the Create tab. The Add Merge Blackout page appears.
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.
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.