dbsrv12 -xa [ auth=auth-string [, auth-string ... ] ] ;DBN={ * | database-name [, database-name ... ] }

All operating systems, network server only.

This option is only specified when starting the arbiter server in a database mirroring system.

Omitting the authentication string means that there is no validation of the authentication string provided by a mirror server.

If only one authentication string is specified, all databases must use that authentication string and the server acts as the arbiter for only one database mirroring system.

If more than one authentication string is provided the list of authentication strings and the list of database names must contain the same number of entries.

The authentication string must match the authentication string specified for the primary and mirror servers.

Specifying DBN=* means that any database can use the server as an arbiter.

• CREATE MIRROR SERVER statement
• SET MIRROR OPTION statement
• Tutorial: Using database mirroring
• Tutorial: Using database mirroring with multiple databases sharing an arbiter server
• DatabaseName (DBN) connection parameter
• -xf dbsrv12 server option
• -xp dbsrv12 database option

The following SQL statement defines an arbiter server named arbiter:

CREATE MIRROR SERVER arbiter
AS ARBITER
connection_string='SERVER=arbiter;HOST=localhost:6870';

The following command starts the arbiter database server and specifies that any database can use the server as an arbiter:

dbsrv12 
-n arbiter
-su sql
-x tcpip(port=6870)
-xf c:\arbiter\arbiterstate.txt
-xa "AUTH=abc;DBN=*"

The following command starts the arbiter database server and specifies the two databases that can use the server as an arbiter:

dbsrv12 
-n arbiter
-su sql
-x tcpip(port=6870)
-xf c:\arbiter\arbiterstate.txt
-xa "AUTH=abc,xyz;DBN=database1,database2"