Configuring an Adapter

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Chapter 2 Getting Started : Configuring an Adapter

Configuring an Adapter

An adapter instance can contain publication services, subscription services, or request-response services. Options for logging, design-time connection, startup, and monitoring are set on the adapter instance. In this exercise, default values are used for all these options except design-time connection configuration.

To configure the adapter instance:

1.

Drag the LDAP Adapter Configuration icon from the Palette panel to the Design panel. This creates an adapter named LDAPAdapterConfiguration by default. You can change the name, but in this exercise, names assigned by TIBCO Designer will be used.

Figure 3 Configuration Tab of Adapter

2.

Click the Design-time Connection tab in the Configuration panel to specify the LDAP Server access details, and select the Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition item in the Server Type drop-down list.

The values specified in the Design-time Connection tab must be the same as the real LDAP server information.

a.

Specify the machine name in the Server Name field.

b.

Specify the port number in the LDAP Port field.

c.

Specify the username in the User DN field. TIBCO Designer uses this user name to access Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.

d.

Specify the password in the Password field. TIBCO Designer uses this password to access Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.

e.

Click the Test Connection button to verify that the values you entered are correct for your setup.

Figure 4 Design-time Connection Tab of Adapter

3.

Click the Logging tab in the configuration panel to identify the file log options.

In the next figure, Information, Warning and Error messages are specified to be logged to the log file and standard input. The Log File field lists the global variables that are used to define the log file path and name. The DirTrace and Deployment variables are set using global variables. You can click the Global Variable tab in the Project panel to display the variables. The default settings will be used in this example. The InstanceId variable need not be set. The variable automatically substitutes the adapter name at runtime.

Figure 5 Logging Tab of Adapter

4.

Select Project > Save to save the project information.