Properties for Notifiers, gateways, and carriers can be stored in the ml_property MobiLink system table or in the Notifier properties file. See Setting properties.

The Notifier properties file is a text file. It can have any name. The easiest way to create this file is to alter the template, template.notifier, located in samples-dir\MobiLink\. (For information about samples-dir, see Samples directory.)

You can export the properties from the ml_property table into your Notifier properties file. To do this, connect to the MobiLink plug-in in Sybase Central, right-click the Notification folder, and choose Export Settings. The exported file may be copied to a different location and used to easily configure a Notifier there.

You can have several Notifier property files. To identify the properties file you want to use, specify the name and location when you start mlsrv11 with the -notifier option. Following is a partial mlsrv11 command line:

mlsrv11 ... -notifier "c:\CarDealer.notifier"

For information about how properties are read if you do specify a properties file on the command line, see Setting properties in more than one place.

A Notifier properties file can configure and start multiple Notifiers and multiple gateways. You provide a name for each Notifier and gateway that you want to define.

Notifier properties are normally entered on one line, but you can use the backslash ( \ ) as a line continuation character.

The backslash is also an escape character. You can use the following escape sequences in your property settings:

Example

For a fully commented sample Notifier properties file, see samples-dir\MobiLink\template.notifier. (For information about samples-dir, see Samples directory.)