Using the Administrator GUI

To start a Replication Agent instance from the Administrator GUI

If Administrator is not already running, start it by entering the following command at the operating system prompt:

administrator

Or, on Windows NT or Windows 2000, double-click the file name administrator.bat in File Manager or Windows Explorer. This file is located in the rax-12_5\bin subdirectory, under the directory in which you installed the Sybase Replication Agent software.

The Sybase Replication Agent dialog box opens.

Select the Replication Agent instance or instances you want to start.

Click Start.

The Confirm JDBC Driver dialog box prompts you to confirm that the appropriate JDBC driver is specified in the CLASSPATH environment variable.

Click Yes to continue.

If the appropriate JDBC driver is not listed in the CLASSPATH environment variable, you can start the Replication Agent instance, but the Replication Agent cannot connect to the primary database.

Click Start.

The Sybase Replication Agent dialog box indicates that the instance is running.

If the dialog box does not show that the instance is running, you may need to click Refresh to see if the Replication Agent instance is running.

On Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms, each Replication Agent instance you selected is started in a console window using the ra_auto script, located in the rax-12_5/bin directory. Standard error output appears in the console window.

On UNIX platforms, each Replication Agent instance you selected is started in the background using the ra_auto script, located in the rax-12_5/bin directory. Standard error output is redirected to the error.log file, which is located in the Replication Agent instance’s log directory.

If you start a Replication Agent instance with the same administration port number as an instance that is already running, Replication Agent aborts the process and records an error message in the system log.

Click Done to exit the Sybase Replication Agent dialog box.

After you start a Replication Agent instance, you must open another operating system window to log in to the Replication Agent administration port and perform administrative tasks, such as shutting down, configuring, or changing the running state of the Replication Agent instance.