Connecting to Adaptive Server via Sybase Central

Sybase Central provides a graphical user interface where you can perform Adaptive Server administrative tasks. The Sybase Central interface provides a hierarchical list of servers in the left pane and a list of details for the selected server in the right pane. To select a server, click on it in the left pane.

NoteIf you have already run the following command do not do it again. Running it more than once can cause problems.

  1. From a UNIX command line, enter:

    source $SYBASE/SYBASE.csh
    
  2. Then enter:

    run $SYBASE/shared/sycentral/sybcentral43
    
  3. Select Tools | Connect, then select the server to which you want to connect from the drop-down list.

  4. In the Login window, enter the System Administrator’s user name and password.

    You must log in as the System Administrator to perform administrative tasks.

  5. Click OK.

The Adaptive Server plug-in to Sybase Central does not display all servers listed in the interfaces file. Instead, Sybase Central lists only those servers that you connected to earlier, or those servers that are started as Windows services.

To access a new server for the first time, select Tools | Connect to select a server listed in the interfaces file.