Validate a Synchronization Job

Under typical working conditions, if the Allow automatic deletion option is enabled in the synchronization job as described in Configure Synchronization Options, the job will correctly detect and delete items from the repository that no longer exist in the source vault.

However, there are some situations when this cannot be reliably detected by the synchronization job, such as when the document or tag:

Was never released
Was purged
Is not deleted in the vault but does fall outside the collection specified for synchronization

These situations can leave documents or tags in the repository that you might not want to retain. To clean up these deleted documents and tags, you should occasionally validate the synchronization job.

Note:

Scheduled validations will validate the synchronization jobs for all Meridian Enterprise source vaults of the current repository.
If multiple synchronization jobs run for a repository and the Allow automatic deletion option is enabled for all of the jobs, documents will only be removed from the repository if none of the jobs specify a collection scope.
Because this task can be quite time-consuming, we recommend that you schedule it to run only once per week outside of production hours.

To validate a synchronization job:

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Repositories group, click Repositories.

The All Repositories page appears and lists the existing Meridian Explorer repositories and Meridian Enterprise vaults.
Double-click the name of the repository that you want to configure.
In the menu, click Management Tools.

The management tools for the selected repository appear.
In the Validate Synchronization group, enable Repair inconsistencies if you want the validation task to add missing items to the repository and delete obsolete items in the next synchronization job.

Disable the option to only view a report of the inconsistencies.
Choose between two options:
- To validate the repository immediately:
  - Click Run.
    
    A background task is started and you can continue working. When the validation has completed, the Validation Report dialog box appears and shows the information described in the following table.
- To schedule repository validation to run later:
  1. Click Schedule.
    
    The Schedule dialog box appears. This dialog box requires the same input as the Windows Task Scheduler.
  2. Configure the scheduled task to run at your desired time.
  3. Click Schedule.
    
    The task is modified and will run on the configured schedule.

Validation report items
Item	Description
Status	The completion status of the validation.
Report	The quantities of objects found by the selected checks.
Out of scope documents	The number of documents in the source vault that are not in the collection specified for the synchronization job.
Out of scope object tags	The number of tags in the source vault that are not in the collection specified for the synchronization job.
Out of scope projects	The number of project folders in the source vault that are not in the collection specified for the synchronization job.
Missing items	The sum of the items in the source vault that are not in the collection specified for the synchronization job.