Progress Fathom Replication
User’s Guide

Control agent properties

Table 3–2 is a list of agent properties and their values.

Control agent properties are specified after the [control-agent.name] directive in the source properties file. The value of name must exactly match one of the names specified for the control-agents property under the [server] directive. If you run two agents, you need a [control.agent.name] directive for each of the agents.

Property names and values are separated by an equals sign. For example: name=agent1.

Table 3–2: Control agent properties

Property name	Value	Description
connect-timeout	seconds	Specifies how many seconds the server will attempt connection to its configured agents. This property is also used by the server while reconnecting to the agent after communication has been lost.
critical	0 | 1	Specifies whether the agent is critical. A critical agent is an asynchronous agent for the target database that can become the source database if the source database becomes unavailable. 1 is critical. 0 is the default value of noncritical.
database	db_name	Specifies the source database name.
host	IP_address|hostname	Specifies to the server which host the agent will start on.
name	agent_name	Specifies the Fathom Replication agent name. By convention, the agent_name should match the name specified in the target database properties file. This directive is only used by Progress Explorer. ALL is not allowed as an agent name. Each agent must have a unique name.
port	service_name | port_num	Specifies which port the server should use to connect to the target database. The port number specified must be the same port specified with the -S parameter when the target database broker was started.
replication-method	async | sync	Specifies the type of replication, either asynchronous (async) or synchronous (sync). Note: Values are case sensitive. Use async or sync, but not Async or Sync.