SAP ASE uses directory services to determine the address at which to
listen for clients.
When you start SAP ASE, it:
- Looks for the server
name supplied in the command line -s option.
If the server name is not supplied in the command line, it determines its own
name by checking the value of the DSLISTEN environment variable. If the DSLISTEN
environment variable is not set, SAP ASE assumes that the server name is
SYBASE.
- Looks in directory
services for an entry that matches the name found in the steps above.
- Uses the network
information provided by the directory services entry it has found to listen for
client connections.