Creating and Maintaining Database LinksChapter 3 Configuring Directory Databases 111Managing Connections to the Remote ServerEach database link maintains a pool of connections to a remote server. You canconfigure the connections to optimize resources for your directory.You can change the connection attributes using the Directory Server Console orthrough the command line.Managing Connections to the Remote Server Using the Console1. On the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.2. Expand the Data folder in the left pane and locate the database link you wantto change. Click the database link, then click the Limits and Controls tab in theright navigation pane.3. In the Connection Management section, make changes to any of the followingfields:Maximum TCP connection(s). The maximum number of TCP connections thatthe database link establishes with the remote server. The default value is 3connections.Bind timeout. Amount of time, in seconds, before the database link’s bindattempt times out. The default value is 15 seconds.Maximum binds per connection. Maximum number of outstanding bindoperations per TCP connection. The default value is 10 outstanding bindoperations per connection.Time out before abandon (sec). Number of seconds before the server checks tosee if a timed out connection should be abandoned. The default value is 2seconds.Maximum LDAP connection(s). Maximum number of LDAP connections thatthe database link establishes with the remote server. The default value is 10connections.Maximum bind retries. Number of times a database link attempts to bind tothe remote server. A value of 0 indicates that the database link will try to bindonly once. The default value is 3 attempts.Maximum operations per connection. Maximum number of outstandingoperations per LDAP connection. The default value is 10 operations perconnection.
