Sybase 15.0.2 - Manual (Page 56)

Connecting to Adaptive Server via Sybase Central
42 Adaptive Server Enterprise
Connecting to Adaptive Server via Sybase Central
Sybase Central provides a graphical user interface where you can perform
Adaptive Server administrative tasks. The Sybase Central interface provides a
hierarchical list of servers in the left pane and a list of details for the selected
server in the right pane. To select a server, click on it in the left pane.
1 From the Windows task-bar, select Start | Programs | Sybase | Sybase
Central v4.3.
2 In the left pane, click the server to which you want to connect.
3 In the Login window, enter the System Administrator’s user name and
password.
You must log in as the System Administrator to perform administrative
tasks.
4 Click OK.
Warning! The first time you log in to Adaptive Server, use the default “sa” user
name and leave the password blank. After you log in for the first time, change
the System Administrator’s password. See “Setting the System Administrator
password” on page 42.
The Adaptive Server plug-in to Sybase Central does not display all servers
listed in the interfaces file. Instead, Sybase Central lists only those servers that
you connected to earlier, or those servers that are started as Windows services.
To access a new server for the first time, select Tools | Connect to select a server
listed in the interfaces file.
Setting the System Administrator password
A user account called “sa” is created for the Sybase System Administrator
when you install the Sybase software. A user logged in as “sa” can use any
database on Adaptive Server, including
master , with full privileges.
Immediately after a new installation, there is no password on the “sa” account.
The initial default value for the password is NULL. In a production
environment, the Sybase System Administrator should always use a
non-default password.