The Setting tab allows you to configure the system to your unique specifications. This is a user interface for one computer controlling execution on either itself or on another machine. You must know the source and destination IP addresses as well as the port numbers for the process-running machines.
Data Source Name – enter the name of the database that will store the configuration information that you are entering for this new system. For the UNIX production system, this database name should be the same name that you picked for the NT development system. You can use an existing database or create a new database by clicking on the ODBC Configure... button. (For information about configuring an ODBC database, see “Configuring ODBC for a new system”.) For example, if you are storing the information in an Oracle database, you could enter “Oracle.”
Do not use spaces when entering a database name.
Enter the connection string. The connection string contains the Data Source Name. For example, DSN=Oracle. The connection string contains initialization properties needed to connect to a data source and enables you to easily store connection information within your application or pass it between applications. Without a connection string, you would be required to store or pass a complex array of structures to access data. The basic format of a connection string is based on the ODBC connection string. The string contains a series of keyword/value pairs separated by semicolons. The equals sign (=) separates each keyword and its value.
You are finished with this filling out this screen. Fill out the Archive parameters only when you want to archive files from one EC Gateway computer to another EC Gateway computer by referencing the IP addresses or drive letters of the source and destination computers. For this to work correctly you also have to use EC Gateway Remote on the destination computer to “listen”. If you specify drive letters, you do not need to specify any IP address nor do you have to use EC Gateway Remote.
Source IP Address – enter the IP address for the server that the data to be archived resides on. For more information about IP addresses, see “About IP addresses”.
Port Number – enter the pathway to the server that the data to be archived resides on. The port number is the port EC Gateway Remote is configured to use. The port number is found in the c:\ecedigs\generic.ini as well as some of the EC Gateway Remote commands in a EC Gateway process, for example the “EXECUTEREMOTEPROCESS” command. For more information, see “About port numbers”.
Destination IP Address – enter the IP address for the server that the archived data will reside on.
Port Number – enter the pathway to the server on which the archived data will reside.
An IP address has two parts: the identifier of a particular network on the Internet and an identifier of the particular device (which can be a server, a workstation, or a printer) within that network.
In addition to the network address or number, information is needed about which specific machine or host in a network is sending or receiving a message. So the IP address needs both the unique network number and a host number, which is unique within the network. The host number is sometimes called a local or machine address.
There are four different address formats or classes that identify a network based on its size. The first few bits of each IP address indicate which of the address class formats it is using. The IP address is usually expressed as four decimal numbers, each representing eight bits, separated by periods. This is sometimes known as the dot address and, more technically, as dotted quad notation.
A port is a “logical connection place” and specifically, using the Internet’s protocol, TCP/IP, the way a client program specifies a particular server program on a computer in a network. When a server program initially is started, it is said to bind to a designated port number. As any client program wants to use that server, it also must request to bind to a designated port number. A port number is a way to identify a specific process to which an Internet or other network message is to be forwarded when it arrives at a server.
