Preparing the Siebel Environment

The Adapter for Siebel offers two methods of user authentication:

• Explicit. User IDs and passwords are explicitly stated in SET CONNECTION_ATTRIBUTES commands. You can include these commands in the Server's global profile, edasprof.prf, for all users.
• Password Passthru. User ID and password received from the client application are passed to the Siebel Server for authentication. When a client connects to the server, the user ID and password are passed to Siebel for authentication and are not authenticated by the server.

Using the standard rules for deploying the Siebel Client, the server supports connections to:

• Local Siebel database servers.
• Remote Siebel database servers.

To connect to a Siebel database server, the server must be pointing to the correct Siebel Gateway Server, Siebel Enterprise Server, Siebel Object Manager, and Siebel Server on the target machine.

Once you are connected to a Siebel database server, that server may define Siebel DATABASE LINKs that can be used to access Siebel tables on other Siebel database servers.