SIMPOL Documentation

The simpolserver.exe program is designed to run without any user interface. It takes a single argument on the command line, which is the name of the configuration file from which it should read the information it needs to run: which port number(s) to listen on, the name of the log file to create, the name(s) of the database files that should be shared and the parameters for each of them. If it is started without any parameters it will search for the file simpolserverinfo.cfg in the same directory from where the exe file was started. If it hits an error starting up it will output that information as a return value to the console and if it got far enough there may be some information in the log file.

It can also be run using the simpolserver.smp file, in which case it should definitely be run by passing the configuration file name to it as a parameter. This is the program to use when running on Linux.

When running this program, there is a companion program that can provide the user-interface for the server. That program is delivered as simpolserverclient.exe. It is currently only available for Windows. It will present a user-interface that looks more or less identical to that of the guisimpolserver.exe program, but it acts only as a front-end to the server version. It can also start and stop the sharing of tables, as well as perform a reorganize, back up, restore and can view the log. The simpolserverclient.exe takes a single parameter, which is the TCP/IP port where the server is listening. If no parameter is provided, it will search the directory where the exe file was located when it started for a file called simpolserverinfo.cfg and if it finds it will read the TCP/IP port value from there.