Information Required to Add a Database Connection

You need to specify several items when you add a database connection.

The Replication Server installation and configuration guides for your platform describe how you use rs_init to add databases.

When you add a database, you specify:

Replication Server name
Replication Server System Administrator user name and password
Adaptive Server name
Adaptive Server System Administrator user name and password
Database name
Whether the database requires a RepAgent
Maintenance user name and password
Database Owner user name and password
Whether the physical connection is for an existing logical connection

You cannot use the rs_init utility for non-ASE databases. You must create and manage maintenance user login names in the non-ASE database server, and you can create connections to non-ASE databases using connection profiles.

See the Replication Server Heterogeneous Replication Guide and the Replication Server Options documentation to configure access to non-ASE databases.

Add Databases for Logical Connections
If you are adding a physical connection for an existing logical connection, which you create with Sybase Central or the create logical connection command, you must specify additional information.
Add a Database that Requires a RepAgent Thread
If you are adding an Adaptive Server primary database that requires a RepAgent, you must specify the Replication Server user name and password.

Parent topic: Create Database Connections

Related concepts

Connection Profiles