Lesson 7: Restarting the MobiLink server to replay

In this lesson, you stop the MobiLink server to stop recording and then restart the server without the -rp option to prepare the server for replay.

Prerequisites

This lesson assumes you have completed all preceding lessons. See Lesson 1: Setting up your MobiLink consolidated database.

This lesson assumes that you have the roles and privileges listed in the Privileges section at the start of this tutorial: Tutorial: Simulating multiple MobiLink clients using the MobiLink Replay utility.

Task

Run the following command to stop the MobiLink server, mlreplay_svr:

mlstop -w -t 1m mlreplay_svr

The MobiLink server stops along with synchronization recording.

The following table contains a description for each option used:

Option	Description
-w	Waits for the server to shut down before returning to the command prompt.
-t	Specifies that the server should shut down after one minute, or after the current synchronizations have completed, whichever is sooner.

Run the following command to connect to your consolidated database:

mlsrv16 -c "DSN=cons" -zu+ -zs mlreplay_svr -x tcpip -ot server_replay.mls -v+

The MobiLink server messages window appears.

Below is a description of each MobiLink server option used. The -ot and -v options provide debugging and troubleshooting information. These logging options are appropriate in a development environment. Typically, for performance reasons, -v is not used in production.

Option	Description
-c	Specifies the connection string.
-ot	Specifies the message log file server_replay.mls.
-v+	Specifies what information is logged. Using -v+ sets maximum verbose logging.
-x	Sets the protocol used to listen for synchronization requests.
-zs	Sets a MobiLink server name.
-zu+	Adds new users automatically.

Results

The MobiLink server is stopped and then started again.

Next

Proceed to Lesson 8: Replaying synchronization.

Lesson 7: Restarting the MobiLink server to replay

Task

See also