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Configuring Database Reconnect for Server Components

Database reconnect is an optional feature that enables Siebel Server components to automatically attempt a database connection following a database or network failure. At regular intervals after the failure, Siebel Server components try to reconnect to the database and resume any tasks that were rolled back due to the failure. This feature greatly reduces the administration of Siebel Server components. This topic is part of Advanced Configuration Tasks.

Without database reconnect, a database or network failure causes the Siebel Server component to shut down and all of the running tasks to crash. You must then manually restart all of the components that were shut down and rerun all of the tasks that crashed.

Database reconnect is enabled for all of the background-mode and batch-mode Siebel Server components, except for the Enterprise Integration Manager and Database Extract Siebel Server components. This feature is disabled for all of the interactive-mode Siebel Server components (such as Synchronization Manager and all of the Application Object Manager components).

You can configure database reconnect by using the following parameters:

• Number of Retries (alias NumRetries)
• Retry Interval (alias RetryInterval)
• Retry Up Time (alias RetryUpTime)

Set these parameters at the same level as the automatic restart parameters (typically, at the component level).

Related Topics

About Siebel System Parameters

Configuring Automatic Restart for Server Components

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