This topic describes the most important solidDB client-side parameters and their default settings.
Defining network names (Com section)
A client application uses a network name to specify which protocol to use when communicating with the server, and which server to connect to.
Connect parameter: The Com.Connect parameter defines the default connect string for a client to connect to when it communicates with a server. Because the client must use the same network name as the server is listening to, the value of the Com.Connect parameter on the client must match the value of the Com.Listen parameter on the server.
The following connect line tells the client to communicate with the server by using the TCP/IP protocol to talk to a computer named server1 using server port number 1313.
[Com] connect = tcp server1 1313
When an application program is using a solidDB ODBC Driver, the ODBC Data Source Name can used instead of the Com.Connect parameter.
The [HotStandby] and [Synchronizer] sections in the solid.ini file also have Connect parameters. These parameters work independently from each other; however, they use the same format for the connect string.
Trace and TraceFile parameters: The client-side Com.Trace parameter controls whether solidDB collects trace information about network messages for the established network connection.
When Com.Trace is set to Yes, solidDB writes the trace log to the default trace file (soltrace.out) in the current working directory or to the file specified with the Com.TraceFile parameter.