Creating a Replication Agent Instance

Create a Replication Agent instance, which uses XStream APIs to capture replicated transactions from an Oracle primary database.

At any time after the Replication Agent software is installed, invoke ra_admin with the -c option:

ra_admin -c new_inst -p port_num {-t database|-f old_inst} [-uid ra_username] [-pwd ra_password]

For parameter descriptions, see the ra_admin command in the Replication Agent Administration Guide.

In this example, you create a Replication Agent instance named raoxs, which listens to port 8888 and database type is oraclexs for Oracle XStream:

ra_admin -c raoxs -t oraclexs -p 8888

The oraclexs parameter initializes the Replication Agent Log Reader component to use XStream APIs to capture committed transactions.