| servername |
Name of SAP ASE or Backup Server.
Requirements for a server name are: - The
name cannot be more than 30 characters long.
- The
first character must be a letter (ASCII a through z, A through
Z).
- The
characters that follow must be letters, numbers, or underscores
(_).
|
| retry_attempts (optional) |
Number of times you want the client to try to connect
to a server after initial failure. Default is 0. |
| delay_interval (optional) |
Number of seconds between connection attempts. Default
is 0. |
| service_type |
Type of service defined by entry. Must be either:
|
| api |
Application programming interface available to the
network. The only supported value is "tli". |
| protocol |
The only available protocol type is: - TCP/IP, represented by
the letters “tcp”.
|
| network |
Name of the network; not currently
used by SAP ASE. srvbuild enters
“ether” as a placeholder. |
| host |
Network name or address of server’s host machine.
|
| machine |
Network name or address of server’s host machine.
You can use either the host name or Internet address. The maximum
size of entry is 32 bytes.
To determine the host name of a
machine, log in to that machine and
enter:
/bin/hostname
|
| device |
The network device endpoint. For TCP networks, the
device varies according to the vendor supplying the networking
software. Check the vendor-specific documentation for the name of
the device. Your network may provide multiple stream devices
corresponding to different protocols in the TCP protocol suite.
Choose the TCP streams device. Common TCP streams devices is
/dev/tcp.
|
| address for a TLI protocol
entry |
Address consists of: - Address prefix, “\x”
for TLI.
- Network type, always
0002.
- Port
number converted to four digits, hexadecimal. Must be a unique
number between 1025 and 65535. Check the /etc/services file on each
machine on the network to see what port numbers are in use.
Enter the SAP ASE port number in a new section of /etc/services. You do not have
to make this entry for the operating system to function
properly, but the presence of the port number in the file may
prevent other users from using the port number.
- IP network node address
of the host machine converted to 8 digits, hexadecimal.
- Trailing zeros,
optional, 16 digits.
|
| port |
A unique port number between 1025 and
65535. Check the /etc/services
file on each machine on the network to see what port numbers are in use.
Enter the SAP ASE port number in a new section of /etc/services. You do not have to make
this entry for the operating system to function properly, but the
presence of the port number in the file may prevent other users from
using that port number. |
| ha_failover |
An entry created in directory services or the
interfaces file for high availability. |
| filter |
SAP ASE supports Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) as a filter, which is appended to the master and query lines of
the directory services. SSL is the standard for securing the
transmission of sensitive information. |