Starting a Replication Agent Instance with the Administrator GUI

You can use the Administrator GUI to start a Replication Agent instance.

Prerequisites

administrator must be running before you use it to start a Replication Agent instance.
Set the SYBASE environment before you invoke administrator.

Task

Select the Replication Agent instance or instances you want to start. Click Start.

Click Yes to confirm that the appropriate JDBC driver is specified in the CLASSPATH environment variable.

Note: If the appropriate JDBC driver is not listed in the CLASSPATH environment variable, you can start the Replication Agent instance, but it cannot establish a connection to the primary database server.
Click Start. You may need to click Refresh to see if the Replication Agent instance is running.
The Replication Agent window indicates that the instance you selected is running:
- On Windows, a console window opens for each Replication Agent instance you selected to start.
- On UNIX, each Replication Agent instance you selected is started in the background.
For all platforms, the Replication Agent is started in Admin state using the administrator script, which is located in the RAX-15_5/bin directory. During start-up, standard error output is redirected to the error.log file, which is located in the Replication Agent instance log directory. After start-up, standard error and standard output directed to the <instance>.log file in the <instance>/log directory.

Note: If you try to start a Replication Agent instance with the same administration port number as an instance that is already running, Replication Agent aborts the process and logs an error message in the system log.

If the instance you try to start does not run, check the instance log to see if an error occurred.
Click Done to exit the Administrator GUI window.