Recitalreplication

dbservice

The replication services are administrated with the dbservice command. It takes the following arguments;

help

If you can specify help or -h argument without a service name first and it will display a list of arguments for all the services.

# dbservice help

service name

For all non help related commands you must specify the name of the service. The following list of service names can be used, these can be abbreviated to the first three letters of the name.

Service Names

Service Name	Description
rrs	This will perform the request on all services
subscriber	This will perform the request on the subscriber service.
publisher	This will perform the request on the publisher service.

start

This argument is used to start the specified service. If the service name specified is all, then all configured services will be start on this system.

stop

This argument is used to stop the specified service. If the service name specified is all, then all running services will be stopped on this system.

restart

This argument is used to restart the specified service. If the service name specified is all, then all running services will be restarted on this system.

status

This argument is used to display the current status of the specified service. If the service name specified is all, then the current status for all services will be displayed.

-d seconds

Specify the delay in seconds between checking for new transactions. Specifying this argument on the command will overwrite the setting specified for DB_REPDELAY in the dbservice.conf file.

-i

Rebuild the subscriber index used for Peer to Peer replication.

-h

List available command line options (this page).

-l

Turn logging on. Specifying this argument on the command will overwrite the setting specified for DB_REPLOG in the dbservice.conf file.

-p password

Specify a password for the server the publisher is running on. The password can also be specified in the data source.

-r

Reset the time stamp so all transactions in the queue are processed.

-u username

Specify a user name for the server the publisher is running on. The user name can also be specified in the data source.