General guidelines

This topic assumes you have read System requirements.

Follow these guidelines to simplify the administration and maintenance of your multi-server environments:

• Assign a server ID to every server

  • we recommend that the serverID be the same as the server name (P4NAME) if configured

  • use the p4 server command to identify each server in your network.
• Assign a service user name to every server by using the p4 server command
  • this simplifies the reading of logs and provides authentication and audit trails for inter-server communication
  • each service user name should be unique
  • assign service users strong passwords (see "strong passwords" at p4 password)
• Configure each server to reject operations that reduce its disk space below the limits defined by that service’s filesys.*.min configurables, such as filesys.depot.min.
• Monitor the integrity of your replicas by using the integrity.csv structured server log and the p4 journaldbchecksums command. See Verifying replica integrity.