Connection Management Properties
Each field in the Connection Properties section shown in the preceding figure has a corresponding metadata parameter provided by the associated connection factory. At run time, the node passes the adapter user's settings for these fields to the connection factory, which makes them available to each connection the factory creates.
Two of these fields pertain to initializing the connection pool at startup:
Startup Retry Count specifies the number of times that the system should attempt to initialize the connection pool at startup if the initial attempt fails, before issuing an AdapterConnectionException.
Startup Backoff Timeout specifies the number of seconds to wait between each attempt to initialize the connection pool.
These fields provide flexibility in managing connections in environments where network anomalies are commonplace. They are significant in the following situations: when a new connection is enabled; when Integration Server starts; and when the package containing a (previously) enabled connection node is reloaded.
For information about other connection management parameters, see
Configuring Connection Nodes.