Lesson 5: Starting the MobiLink server

This lesson assumes you have completed all preceding lessons. See Lesson 1: Setting up a MobiLink consolidated database.

In this lesson, you start the MobiLink server using the mlsrv12 -c option to connect to your consolidated database. You use additional options to configure MobiLink server behavior.

Start the MobiLink server

At a command prompt, change to the c:\MLintro\ directory.

Connect to your consolidated database by running the following command:

mlsrv12 -c "DSN=mlintro_consdb" -o mlsrv.mls -v+ -dl -zf -zu+ -x tcpip

The MobiLink server messages window appears.

Below is a description of each MobiLink server option used in this tutorial. The options -o, -v, and -dl provide debugging and troubleshooting information. Using these logging options is appropriate in a development environment. For performance reasons, -v and -dl are typically not used in production environments. For a complete list of MobiLink server options, see MobiLink server options.

Option	Description
-c	Specifies the connection string to the consolidated database.
-o	Specifies the message log file mlsrv.mls.
-v+	Specifies what information is logged. Using -v+ sets maximum verbose logging.
-zf	Causes the MobiLink server to check for script changes at the beginning of each synchronization.
-dl	Displays all log messages in the messages window.
-zu+	Adds new users automatically.
-x	Sets the communications protocol for the MobiLink server, indicating which port to listen on and what network protocol to expect from MobiLink clients. The default port for TCP/IP is 2439.

Note

The -zf option should be used for debugging and development purposes only. This tutorial requires the -zf option so that you do not need to shut down the MobiLink server when adding new scripts to the consolidated database in a later lesson. The -zu+ option automatically adds new MobiLink users to the synchronization environment.

Proceed to Lesson 6: Starting the MobiLink clients.

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