Managing connection profiles

A RepConnector profile contains the connection property information needed to connect to a RepConnector runtime instance. The profile manages all the configured RepConnector connections defined for an installed RepConnector instance running on an application server. You can configure as many RepConnector profiles as necessary to manage all the RepConnector installations from a single RepConnector Manager.

Creating a new profile

Right-click the RepConnector Servers folder and select New.
When the New RepConnector Profile wizard displays, enter:
- Name – the name of the RepConnector profile. This name must be unique within this instance of RepConnector Manager. The name of the profile can contain alphanumeric characters, colons, periods, hyphens, and underscores. It cannot contain white spaces.
- Description – an optional description of this profile.
- Autoconnect at Startup – automatically starts the profile when WorkSpace starts.
Select Next.
On the next page of the wizard, enter:
- Host – the HTTP host name of the machine where the target RepConnector Server is running. The default value is localhost.
- Port – the HTTP port number where the target RepConnector server is listening. The default is 8000, the default port for EAServer 6.02.
- User – the RepConnector administrator user ID to connect to the RepConnector server. The default is repraadmin.
See “Setting up the RepConnector Server administrator login” for information about changing the default user name and password.
Select Next to see a summary; the next page of the wizard summarizes the profile options. Select Back to go back and make changes, Finish to create the new profile, or Cancel to cancel the wizard.

Renaming a profile

Right-click the profile, and select Rename.
Enter a new profile name that is unique within the same RepConnector Manager instance.
Select OK to rename the profile with a new name.

Editing the profile properties

Right-click the profile, and select Properties.
Modify the fields as needed.
Select OK to save the profile.

Deleting a profile

Right-click the profile and select “Delete”.
Select “Yes” to delete the profile from the tree view, or “No” to cancel the action.

This procedure deletes a profile from the RepConnector Manager tree view only. It does not make changes to the runtime configuration.

Setting up the RepConnector Server administrator login

Each RepConnector instance has one administrator login. The default administrator login is “repraadmin” with no password. Sybase recommends that you change the administrator login and password to secure access to the RepConnector runtime.

The login name and the password must be alphanumeric.

The length of the password must be 30 or fewer characters.

Navigate to the RepConnector runtime installation location’s bin directory.

For example, on UNIX, enter:
```
cd /opt/sybase/EAServer/repra/bin
```
On Windows, enter:
```
cd c:\sybase\EAServer\repra\bin
```
Invoke the setlogin.sh script on UNIX, or the setlogin.bat batch file on Windows:

On UNIX, enter:
```
setlogin.sh <old_user_name> <old_password> \ <new_user_name> <new_user_password>
```
On Windows, enter:
```
setlogin.bat <old_user_name> <old_password> \ <new_user_name> <new_user_password>
```
Having no password is represented by empty quotation marks. To create a password when there is none currently, enter:
```
setlogin.sh repraadmin ““\ repraadmin thepassword
```

Verifying the profile

Profile information can be verified with a ping option, which pings the running RepConnector Server.

Start the RepConnector Server if it is not already running.
Right-click the profile and select Ping.
Enter the password and select either Test Connection, or OK.
If the ping fails, verify the profile information and verify that the RepConnector Server is running.

Logging in to the RepConnector Server

Start the RepConnector Server if it is not running already.
Right-click the profile and select Connect.
A properties box displays all the RepConnector profile properties, and an empty password field. Enter the password and select OK.

For security reasons, you must re-enter the password each time you log in.

Refreshing the profile

The tree view under the profile folder can be refreshed to show the current status of the runtime.

Right-click the profile.
Select Refresh.

Logging out of the RepConnector Server

Log out of the RepConnector profile to disconnect a profile.

Right-click the logged-in profile.
Select Disconnect.