OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Explorer: Configuration

Configuring OpenEdge Databases
Configuring an OpenEdge Replication-enabled database
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To configure your source database and target database for OpenEdge Replication, you must
configure the replication property files for both the OpenEdge Replication source database and
the OpenEdge Replication target database.
In the OpenEdge-install-directory/properties folder, OpenEdge Replication provides two
sample property files: source.repl.properties and target.repl.properties. You can save
these files and modify them, using either OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer, or a
text editor, so that you can use them with your source and target OpenEdge Replication
databases. Because source.repl.properties and target.repl.properties are samples,
some of the properties and values are generic; it is up to you to customize the properties to
reflect the settings you want to use with your own source and target databases.
When you use OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer to make configuration changes
to the Replication server or Replication target properties, the changes are reflected in the
applicable property file.
Rules for setting properties for a Replication-enabled
database
From the management console, you can configure various properties for a database enabled for
Replication. The options you have in the console for configuring these Replication-related
properties depend upon the following rules:
• For a database not enabled for Replication:
– If the Replication property file does not exist, no Replication links are available.
– If the Replication property file does exist but is empty, a Server (create new) link
and an Agent (create new) link appear.
Note: You can configure transition only when one of these groups exists.
– If the Replication property file does exist and is not empty, then all groups defined
in the property file appear.
• For a database enabled for Replication:
– If the Replication property file does not exist, Replication-related links still appear.
However, you can create only the group for which the database is enabled. In other
words, you can create the Server group for source-enabled databases and the Agent
group for target-enabled databases.
– If the Replication property file does exist, only the groups that are applicable to the
database enablement appear. For source enablement, Server, ctrl-agents, and
transition appear. For target enablement, Agent and transition appear.
– If the Transition group database-role is set to reverse, you either see the existing
group for the reverse role or are allowed to create a new group for the reverse role.
– If you specify Alternate buffer pool blocks for a Replication target database, the
property setting is ignored.