Replication Shares are devices that keep copies of files for distribution. Replication shares are especially useful if your managed devices are deployed across multiple geographic locations.
The Replication Shares can be used to deploy Managed Installations, Patches, or Dell Updates on computers located at remote sites, as to download resources locally instead of consuming bandwidth and time.
For more information on this topic, please see the KACE SMA Course 5 Performing Distributions: Replication Shares-Web-based Training.
Before creating a Replication Share, one device at each remote location must be selected to act as a Replication Device.
Reference: How to create a replication share to save bandwidth.
The following prerequisites are recommended:
The appliance will copy every replication item to the Replication Device at the specified Destination Path. The replication process automatically restarts if it is stopped due to a network failure or replication schedule. If stopped, the replication process restarts at the point it was stopped.
The device name and folder name are user-defined while repl2 is automatically created by the appliance. The replication items folder includes the folder for patches, kbots, upgrade files, and applications.
PLEASE NOTE: KACE does not support hidden shared drive with the '$' notation. For example, the shared drive can't be set up as \\KaceRep\e$
All the replication items are first listed in the replication queue and then copied one at a time to the destination path.
Replication items are copied in this order:
Any new replication item is first listed in the replication queue and then copied after an interval of 10 minutes.
View Replication Share details list:
This page displays a list of the Replication Shares that are available on the appliance. For each Replication Share, a default view shows its Status, replication Task, associated Device, Destination Path, KACE SMA Agent Version, Label, an indication if the Replication Share is Enabled, and the number of files remaining to be copied along with the total size of files remaining to be copied (in the ToDo column). The information appearing in the ToDo column allows you to review the state of the replication process for each Replication Share in this list, instead of reviewing individual shares to find out if their replication process is complete.
Basic troubleshooting:
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