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Overview of remote updates

Remote updates provide an automatic method of administering remote subscribers. Remote updates:

Let you automatically add all remote subscribers who need to exchange messages across the network
Let your local Avaya™ S3400 Message Server exchange subscriber information with each S3400 and Avaya™ Message Networking system that is administered on the local system. See Overview of the Avaya Message Networking system for more information about the Message Networking system.

Remote updates greatly reduce the time required to set up the network. Whether you use the remote updates feature depends on the:

Number of users in your network
Size and disk space of your local system
Number of networking ports that you are using

You also can enter remote subscriber information manually. Before you administer your subscriber or remote update information, consult with the remote system administrators in your network. Each remote system administrator must determine whether to use remote updates.

Types of remote updates

There are two types of remote updates: complete and partial updates.

Complete updates

With a complete update, all user information is exchanged between systems. When a new system is added to the network, each existing system must request a complete update from the new system to add the new users to the network. Complete updates might involve thousands of users and require heavy system resources. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you perform complete updates during non-prime time to reduce the impact on system users.

Additionally, the local system can automatically schedule a complete update during non-prime time from a remote system if the local system detects discrepancies among databases.

Partial updates

Partial updates occur automatically on a regular basis to add or change information for users. For example, a partial update occurs when a new user is added to a remote system or a local system.

If all systems in the network allow updates, then any time a user is added to, deleted from, or edited on a system, that system automatically notifies each system in the network.

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