PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Specify the policy target directory

You must specify a target cluster and directory to replicate data to.

1. In the Target Cluster area, in the Target Host field, type one of the following:

   • The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any node in the target cluster.

   • The hostname of any node in the target cluster.

   • The name of a SmartConnect zone in the target cluster.

   • The IPv4 or IPv6 address of any node in the target cluster.

   • localhost

     This option replicates data to another directory on the local cluster.

   NOTE: SyncIQ does not support dynamically allocated IP address pools. If a replication job connects to a dynamically allocated IP address, SmartConnect might reassign the address while a replication job is running, which would disconnect the job and cause it to fail.
2. In the Target Directory field, type the absolute path of the directory on the target cluster that you want to replicate data to.
   CAUTION:

   If you specify an existing directory on the target cluster, ensure that the directory is not the target of another replication policy. If this is a synchronization policy, ensure that the directory is empty. All files are deleted from the target of a synchronization policy the first time that the policy is run.

   If the specified target directory does not exist on the target cluster, the directory is created the first time that the job is run.

   SyncIQ does not allow setting /ifs as the target path of a policy:

   isi sync policies create test sync /ifs/ 10.205.228.48 /ifs -f
   Error in field(s): target_path Path
   '/ifs/' cannot be the target

   The failback is not supported if you are using /ifs as a source path. A policy that is rooted at /ifs will not sync /ifs/.ifsvar. This exclusion policy does not support failback for policies with /ifs as their root path.

   If this is a copy policy, and files in the target directories share the same name as files in the source directory, the target directory files are overwritten when the job is run.

3. If you want replication jobs to connect only to the nodes in the SmartConnect zone that is specified by the target cluster, click Connect only to the nodes within the target cluster SmartConnect Zone.