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OpenEdge Replication Setup

This is a step by step guide on OpenEdge Replication setup with 2 nodes. Here I ll be setting up replication for Openedge 10.2B databases on RHEL 6.2 on top of Virtualbox. My replication environment will be configured for automatic transition, (DR conversion to primary) and will be using Defer Agent Startup (DR database can be created while production is running - minimum production timeout) method. With OpenEdge DR option comes as a separate installable add-on products for database. It has two variants. 1. OpenEdge Replication. 2. OpenEdge Replication Plus. (Provides the possibility to perform read-only actions on DR DB) Virtualbox Setup Install OS (Mine - RHEL 6.2) and  Progress Openedge database (Mine -OpenEdge Enterprise DB 10.2B) and the Fathom replication product (Mine - OpenEdge Replication plus). After installation check with ‘showcfg’ on proenv prompt, should display both the products. Clone or manually create another duplicate server.  Make s