Connection Errors

The Connection Errors tab is where you configure connection resilience, that is automated behavior to take when the connection that your component has made, fails.

Optionally, when we select Retry Connect on Initial Connection Failure, we can configure whether your connection attempt will throw an exception when it fails during startup, or whether it will retry. If this flag is set, and a connection cannot be established when the connector is being initialized, a "reconnect" attempt will be made; it is not really a reconnect, since a connection was not established in the first place, but generally the same mechanism as for the situations that can occur when an established connection is lost.

For established connections, the remaining parameters have the following significance:

Auto Reconnect on Connection Loss

If this flag is set, and the connection is lost after the connector is initialized, a reconnect attempt will be made.

Number Of Retries

The number of times a reconnect attempt will be made when a problem occurs, before giving up. If a new problem occurs later on, the same number of attempts will be made.

Delay Between Retries

The number of seconds to wait between each reconnect attempt, and before the first reconnect attempt.

Auto Skip Forward

After a reconnect, automatically skip forward as many times as the number of successful reads.

Built-in reconnect rules

These tie in with the Reconnect Rule Engine; see the corresponding chapter in the IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator V7.1 Installation and Administrator Guide

Parent topic: The Connector Editor