I am told by some folks that there is no way to enable replication on databases started with dbman. Is that true ? . Is that not Odd ?
Thank you all for your invaluable guidance
Cherian
Yes.
I don't understand how/why this would be true. WSS has many customers using OEE/dbman and OE Replication.
Perhaps they were trying to say that the OEE/OEM graphical tooling has no support for enabling replication?
All of the usual command line tools work just fine to enable replication. Regardless of if you are using dbman or not.
dbman (the command line tool, not OEE the web application) has no support for enabling any database feature. It only has support for starting and stopping a database, querying status, and a few other small bits of functionality. dbman does not participate in any replication functionality of the database.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm going to throw you a small curve ball: There are certain service packs where this will not work "out-of-the-box". But that was 10+ years ago in the 10.2B0x days (before 10.2B08).
What happened was that the DB team increased the max values for certain parameters in the db.repl.properties file but the OEE team had not yet made the corresponding changes in OEE. The result was that you had to add "-DBService replserv" or "-DBService replagent" in the "other params".
Clearly I have too much free time this morning.
That impacts how you configure conmgr.properties not whether dbman works to start the database. I suppose you might get the idea that dbman "doesn't work" if your conmgr.properties is misconfigured, goodness knows I've been down that road a few dozen times, but that is not really a case of "dbman doesn't work", it's a case of "improper setup". Even if the improper setup was because OEE messed it up you shouldn't really blame dbman for that.