Replication Server interacts with other components of a replication system as either a server or a client.
As a server, Replication Server supports connections from:
Replication Agents, across which database commands are sent from primary databases
Other Replication Servers, thus distributing the processing involved in message delivery and providing a degree of scalability in a replication system
Users or management tools for administration, data server identification, message publication and subscription, and so on
As a client, Replication Server connects to:
Replicate Replication Servers for message delivery
Other Replication Servers, thus distributing the processing involved in message delivery and providing a degree of scalability in a replication system
Replication Server System Database (RSSD) which may be on an external Adaptive Server Enterprise database or may be the internal embedded RSSD (ERSSD).
Database gateway to connect to the replicate non-Sybase database.