GoldenGate Microservices Operations: Connecting, Listing Deployments, and Creating Database Connections
Classic GoldenGate has one entry point: GGSCI. Microservices has three — adminclient (a scriptable CLI purpose-built for MA), direct REST calls, and the Service Manager Web UI. This post covers the CLI and REST paths for the operations you’ll do constantly: connecting to a deployment, seeing what’s running, and setting up database connections that Extract and Replicat processes can reuse. 1. Connecting with Adminclient adminclient ships alongside the Microservices install and is the closest equivalent to opening GGSCI — except it talks to the Service Manager over REST instead of operating on local files directly. ...