Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
WebSpeed Essentials

Configuring a WebSpeed broker to connect to a database

This section describes how to use the Progress Explorer to configure and start a WebSpeed broker with agents connected to your working copy of the Sports2000 database. Before you begin, you should have a database server started for your working copy of the database.

Note: The following procedure assumes that you have started Progress Explorer and have connected to the appropriate host machine.

To start a WebSpeed broker and WebSpeed agents in Progress Explorer:

Select and expand the node labeled WebSpeed in the tree view.

You should see the default broker name, wsbroker1, in the tree view, as shown:



Select wsbroker1 and choose Action Properties.

The Properties dialog box appears with a tree view in the left pane.

Expand the tree view under Agent and select General.

The Properties dialog box looks similar to the following:



Add the pathname of your working copy of the Sports2000 database to Agent startup parameters using the -db option.

In the figure in Step 3, the database is specified as c:\WRK\sports2000.

Note: In this example, the database is located on the same machine as the WebSpeed broker with a shared memory connection. If the server for the database is running on a remote machine (or you want to use client/server mode), you must specify the host name (using the -H parameter) of the database’s machine and the service name (using the -S parameter). For more information about client/server connections, see OpenEdge Application Server: Developing AppServer Applications .
Choose OK.
Select wsbroker1 and choose Action Start.

After the WebSpeed broker starts, you can monitor its performance by choosing Action Status.