Configuring standard connector properties

Adapter connectors have two types of configuration properties:

This section describes the standard configuration properties. For information on configuration properties specific to a connector, see its adapter user guide.

Using Connector Configurator

You configure connector properties from Connector Configurator, which you access from System Manager. For more information on using Connector Configurator, refer to the Connector Configurator appendix.

Note:
Connector Configurator and System Manager run only on the Windows system. If you are running the connector on a UNIX system, you must have a Windows machine with these tools installed. To set connector properties for a connector that runs on UNIX, you must start up System Manager on the Windows machine, connect to the UNIX integration broker and bring up Connector Configurator for the connector.

Setting and updating property values

The default length of a property field is 255 characters.

The connector uses the following order to determine a property's value (where the highest number overrides other values):

  1. Default
  2. Local configuration file
  3. Command line

A connector obtains its configuration values at startup. If you change the value of one or more connector properties during a runtime session, the property's update method determines how the change takes effect. There are four different update methods for standard connector properties:

To determine how a specific property is updated, refer to the Update Method column in the Connector Configurator window, or see the Update Method column in the Property Summary table below.

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