Creating and editing connector profiles
Test Connector uses profiles to store the information
it needs to emulate a connector. You must create a profile for each
connector you want to emulate. You can edit and delete existing
profiles.
Saving the connector definition to a file
To emulate a connector using Test Connector, you must
save the connector definition to a file. Do the following to save
a connector definition to a file:
- Open the connector definition in Connector Configurator.
- Select File > Save As > To File from
the menu bar.
- Navigate to the directory in which you want the file saved,
type a name in the File name field, ensure that
the value Configuration (*.cfg) is displayed in the Save as type drop-down menu, and click Save.
Connector Configurator saves the connector definition to a file
with the specified name.
Creating a new profile
You must create a profile for any connector you want to
emulate in Test Connector. The profile specifies information such
as the name of the connector, and the configuration file to be used.
To create a new connector profile, do the following:
- Select File > Create/Select Profile from
the menu bar to display the "Connector Profile" window.
- In the "Connector Profile window", select File > New Profile from
the menu bar.
- In the "New Profile" window, click Browse and
then navigate to the configuration file for the connector you preparing
in Saving the connector definition to a file.
- Type the name of the connector in the Connector Name field.
You must type the exact name of the connector definition as it exists
in the integration broker repository. For the adapter for JText,
for instance, you must type JTextConnector, without any spaces between the words JText and Connector, and with each letter being the proper case.
-
Select the proper integration
broker in the Broker Type drop-down menu--ICS, WMQI or WAS.
Note:
Select WMQI if your broker is any WebSphere message broker.
- If you selected ICS as your broker type in step 5, do the following as well:
- Type the name of the InterChange Server Express instance in
the Server field.
Be sure to type the name precisely; it is case-sensitive and
Test Connector will not be able to communicate with InterChange
Server Express if the name is not correct.
- Type the password for the admin user account in the Password field.
The default password is null.
- Click OK to close the "New Profile" window.
The "Connector Profile" window displays the
name of the connector in the Connector column,
the name of the InterChange Server Express instance in the Server column,
and the path and name of the connector configuration file in the Configuration File column.
- Click OK to close the "Connector
Profile" window.
Editing a profile
Follow the steps below to make changes to an existing
connector profile:
- Select File > Create/Select Profile from
the menu bar of Test Connector or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N to
display the Connector Profile window.
- In the "Connector Profile" window select the
profile you want to edit and then select Edit > Edit Profile from
the menu bar.
- Type new values in the fields of the "New Profile" window
and use the Browse button to change the configuration
file as necessary to make your edits.
- Click OK to close the "New Profile" window.
Deleting a profile
Do the following to delete a connector profile:
- Select File > Create/Select Profile from
the menu bar of Test Connector or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N to
display the "Connector Profile" window.
- In the "Connector Profile" window, select
the profile you want to delete and then select Edit > Delete Profile from
the menu bar.
