Starting an instance with the ra utility  Starting an instance with the RUN script

Chapter 2: Setup and Configuration

Starting an instance with the Administrator GUI

NoteYou must set the SYBASE environment before you invoke the Sybase Replication Agent administrator utility. See “Setting the SYBASE environment” for more information.

StepsTo start a Replication Agent instance using Administrator

The administrator utility must be running before you use it to start a Replication Agent instance. See “Starting the Administrator GUI” for details.

NoteWhen you start a Replication Agent instance on Windows, start-up processes are running in the background with no DOS windows open.

  1. Select the Replication Agent instance or instances you want to start in the List of instances. Click Start.

    Administrator provides a dialog box asking you to confirm that the appropriate JDBC driver is specified in the CLASSPATH environment variable. Click Yes to continue.

    NoteIf the appropriate JDBC driver is not listed in the CLASSPATH environment variable, you can start the Replication Agent instance, but it will not be able to establish a connection to the primary database server.

  2. Click Start.

    The Sybase Replication Agent window indicates that the instance you selected is running:

    NoteYou may need to click Refresh to see if the Replication Agent instance is running.

    For all platforms, the Replication Agent is started using the ra_auto script, which is located in the RAX-12_6/bin directory. During start-up, standard error output is redirected to the error.log file, which is located in the Replication Agent instance’s log directory. After start-up, standard error and standard output directed to the <instance>.log file in the <instance>/log directory.

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

    If the instance you try to start does not run, check the instance log to see if an error occurred. See “Examining the Replication Agent logs” for more information about viewing the instance log.

  3. Click Done to exit the Administrator GUI window.




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