Progress Fathom Replication
User’s Guide


Database connection considerations

As Fathom Replication is started, all database connections are disallowed until Fathom Replication startup and initialization phases are complete, unless you use the defer-agent-startup property in the server properties file. Disallowing database connections has different results based upon the type of client connecting. Client connections in this section are defined to be user sessions or utilities that perform actions on the database.

Table 2–1 shows the results of connecting during startup and initialization based on the type of client connecting.

Table 2–1: Connection results during startup and initialization 
Type of client
Connection results
Self Serve Client
Blocks until database connections are allowed.
Remote Client
Ends in an error stating that the broker cannot spawn the server. A message is sent to the database log.
Progress Utility
Blocks until database connections are allowed.
Forced Shutdown
Always allowed.
Java ODBC Client (SQL Server access)
Ends in an error stating a network daemon error.
AppServer Self Serve Client
Blocks until database connections are allowed.
AppServer Remote Client
Ends in an error stating that the broker cannot spawn the server. A message is sent to the database log.
WebSpeed Self Serve Client
Blocks until database connections are allowed.
WebSpeed Remote Client
Ends in an error stating that the broker cannot spawn the server. A message is sent to the database log.


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