New Features in Sybase Control Center for Replication

A brief description for each new and enhanced feature, and links to associated topics.

New and enhanced Sybase Control Center for Replication features
Feature Topics

Administration Console – manage existing resources and create new ones. Column-based filtering lets you display only the objects you are interested in.

Testing scripts – test the execution of alert-triggered scripts to make sure they work as expected.

Creating an Alert

Testing an Alert-triggered Script

Automatic logout – a Sybase Control Center administrator can configure the logout timer to end users’ login sessions after a specified period of idleness.

Configuring the Automatic Logout Timer

Logging out of Sybase Control Center

Multiple object selection – in the Perspective Resources view, Resource Explorer, and Administration Console, you can select and perform operations on several objects simultaneously.

Various topics, including Unregistering a Resource

Memory management – use environment variables to control Sybase Control Center’s memory use. A new console command, info -m, displays memory usage data.

Configuring Memory Usage

info Command

Configure alerts on child objects (such as routes and paths) that are components of managed resources.

Creating an Alert

Determine the source, target, and the path of the data flow anywhere in the replication environment through replication tracing. Replication Tracing
Control data flow and configure replication parameters to resolve performance issues using the Quick Admin tool.

Data Flow Control

Setting Replication Parameters

Set up the latency monitoring process to monitor the performance of the replication environment.

Setting Up the Latency Monitoring Process

Hide connection thread status in a warm standby environment and in an environment with a non-Adaptive Server primary database to avoid providing misleading information.

Hiding Connection Thread Status

Monitor the RepAgent thread in an Adaptive Server, either single instance or shared disk cluster.

Displaying RepAgent Thread Status in Adaptive Server

View Sybase IQ servers in the replication topology as part of the replication environment.
Note: Sybase Control Center for Replication supports Sybase IQ only as a replicate database.

Replication Topology

Monitor additional Replication Server statistics for queues and Data Server Interface (DSI) thread.

Graphing Performance Counters

View information about logical connections associated with a Replication Server.

Displaying Logical Connection Status

Check the status bar for information of what is currently happening in the monitoring view, as well as warning and error messages. Launch the Sybase Control Center log viewer through the button in the left side of the status bar.

Replication Monitors

Maximize or minimize a chart view in a replication monitor view.

Replication Monitors