Starting the adapter

To start the adapter for Ariba Buyer, you must:

  1. Start Ariba Buyer 8.x, which starts up the integration channel.
  2. Start the connector.
Note:
When you want to add or reload business object definitions, you add a third step: starting the ODA.

Starting Ariba Buyer

The procedure for starting Ariba Buyer depends on the node configuration of your system. Please refer to the documentation for Ariba Buyer 8.x for details.

Each Buyer node starts an instance of the integration channel. When the channel starts, it attempts to connect to the connector. The channel starts whether or not the connector is running.

Starting the connector

A connector must be explicitly started using its connector start-up script. The startup script should reside in the connector's runtime directory:

ProductDir\connectors\connName
 

where connName identifies the connector. The name of the startup script depends on the operating-system platform, as Table 6 shows.

Table 6. Startup scripts for a connector

Operating system Startup script
UNIX-based systems connector_manager_connName
Windows start_connName.bat

You can invoke the connector startup script in any of the following ways:

For more information on how to start a connector, including the command-line startup options, refer to one of the following documents:

Starting the ODA

The ODA starts when the start_BuyerODA.bat or start_BuyerODA.sh script is run. You must specify the path to the Ariba Buyer server. You can do this by:

Note:
If the Ariba Buyer application and the connector are installed on separate machines, the file system of the Ariba Buyer machine must be mapped or otherwise made accessible to the file system of the machine on which the connector is installed, so that BUYERPATH can be set.

The ODA is used by Business Object Designer. When Business Object Designer connects to the ODA, the ODA reads the Ariba Buyer metadata definitions from the adapter repository, for processing into business object definitions.

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