Reinitialize a PI AF collective member

You can force a new snapshot of the database on the primary PI AF server to be created and pushed out to a secondary server by reinitializing the secondary server. If you have multiple secondary servers, you must reinitialize each individually.

When a secondary server is reinitialized, a new snapshot is created on the primary PI AF server. An agent pushes the snapshot to the secondary servers to initialize them. All the tables that are marked for replication are pushed to the secondary servers. Any pre-existing data on the secondary servers is lost.

1. In AF Collective Manager, right-click the PI AF Collective that contains the server you want to reinitialize and click the Properties button.

2. Click the Collective tab.

3. Right-click the server and select Reinitialize Replication.