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Listener options for device tracking

The following dblsn options are used for device tracking.

Use -x, -u, and -w to specify how to connect to the MobiLink server. This is required if you are using device tracking so that the remote device can update the consolidated database if the address changes. These are also required if you wish to send delivery confirmations to the consolidated database.

The -t+ option is recommended. With it, you can register the MobiLink user name of your remote database and use it when you address notifications instead of addressing the MobiLink user name of the Listener database. You only need to do this once.

-t+ ml_user Use this option to register the MobiLink user name of your remote database so that you can directly address that user name, instead of addressing the Listener database.
This mapping is retained on the server (in the ml_listening table) once tracking information is uploaded successfully, so you only need to register a MobiLink user name once unless you change the MobiLink user name or location. However, using -t+ multiple times is not harmful.
-t- ml_user_alias To disable a MobiLink user name created with -t+, use -t-.
-u Listener_name Use -u to create a MobiLink user name for the Listener. The -u option is optional because there is a default Listener_name, which is device_name-dblsn, where device_name is the name of your device. You can find the device name in your Listener console. Optionally, you can set the device name using the -e option.
Whether or not you use the default name, you may need to add the Listener_name to the ml_user MobiLink system table on your consolidated database. This is because the Listener_name is a MobiLink user name. Like other MobiLink user names, it must be unique and it must be in the ml_user MobiLink system table on your consolidated database.

See Creating MobiLink users.
-w password This option sets the password for the Listener name.
-x connection-parameters Use -x to specify how to connect to the MobiLink synchronization server. This is required if you are using device tracking because it lets the remote device update the consolidated database if the address changes. This option is also required if you wish to send delivery confirmations to the consolidated database.
-y This option updates the password for the Listener name.

For more information about Listener options, see The Listener utility.

Example

The following command starts the Listener with device tracking.

dblsn -x tcpip(host=MLSERVER_MACHINE) -t+ user1 -u remoteuser1

Stopping device tracking