The configuration option replicator.preventOnlineSwitch and the associated JMX property have been removed. As a replacement, the property replicator.force-online-switch has been added. If false (the default), the Replication Live Server waits for the replication process to catch up with the Master Live Server  before going into online runlevel. If true , the server will go online immediately.

The change from the old behavior is that replicator.force-online-switch=true will ensure the switch to online mode even if the Master Live Server is not currently reachable. This is helpful if the runlevels of multiple Replication Live Servers are not coordinated by a central monitoring/watchdog solution that would be able to take the servers online if the _Master Live Server_ is down.

Note that both, the old and the new option, define the startup behavior of a Replication Live Server for which cap.server.init-runlevel=online has been configured or implied as the default. For other initial runlevels, neither option has any effect.

(CMS-12635)