dbsrv12 -xa auth=auth-strings;DBN=database-name

All operating systems, network server only.

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

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

If the lists of authentication strings and database names each contain only one entry, the server will act as the arbiter for only one database mirroring system; otherwise, each list must contain the same number of entries.

• 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:

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