This chapter describes the tasks and procedures you use to administer ASE Replicator and the replication system. This chapter also provides a list of ASE Replicator configuration parameters and describes each parameter in detail.
You can accomplish many of the ASE Replicator administration tasks described in this chapter using Sybase Central Java Edition, a graphical user interface (GUI) system administration tool that comes with Adaptive Server.
Some of the tasks you can perform with Sybase Central are:
Creating primary and replicate database connections
Creating and managing publications and subscriptions
Creating primary and replicate articles
Suspending and resuming connections and subscriptions
Suspending and shutting down the ASE Replicator process
Monitoring ASE Replicator system activity and performance
Sybase Central provides wizards that guide you through creating ASE Replicator objects, including primary and replicate database connections, publications and subscriptions, and primary and replicate articles.
In the Sybase Central window, ASE Replicator appears as a folder under the Adaptive Server icon in the left pane. ASE Replicator objects appear as icons in the ASE Replicator folder.
Refer to the Sybase Central online help for more information about using Sybase Central to administer ASE Replicator.
You can perform all ASE Replicator administration and maintenance tasks with a SQL query tool, such as isql.
To invoke ASE Replicator command procedures, you must log in to the primary Adaptive Server with a user name that has permissions for ASE Replicator. Usually, this is the ASE Replicator system user login that you specified when you set up the ASE Replicator process.
You can execute ASE Replicator command procedures only in
the Distribution Database. Therefore, when you log in to Adaptive
Server to administer ASE Replicator, you must either open the Distribution
Database with the use command, or qualify each ASE Replicator procedure
name with the Distribution Database name.
