You can create a server installation configuration to use an Oracle database. You must
install the database, either locally or remotely, and create a database instance before you install
the IBM® BigFix® Remote Control
server.
About this task
To create an Oracle server configuration task, complete
the following steps:
Procedure
- Select the relevant operating system.
- Enter the installation directory for the IBM BigFix Remote Control server
to be installed to or accept the default that is given.
- Select the relevant Oracle version and enter the relevant
database parameters.
- Database server address
- The IP address or host name of your database server. 127.0.0.1 can be used
when Oracle is installed locally. If you install Oracle on a remote system, type in the IP address
of the remote system.
- Port on which to connect to the database
- Port on which Oracle is installed.
- Name of the Database to use
- Specify a name for the database. The name is the SID name on the server, not
the one in tnsnames.ora. For example,
TRCDB.
- Database Administrator Userid
- Specify the administrator user ID that is used for logging on to the database. The
user ID must have admin access to the database.
Note: For an Oracle installation, a user that is
called asset must exist. This user ID can be used here or use an existing or
new user.
- Database Administrator Password
- Specify the Administrator password for connecting to the database.
- Path to the JDBC drivers
- Specify the path to the oracle Java™ JDBC
library. The location can be obtained from the Oracle server installation or downloaded from the
Oracle website. For example, c:\oracle\ora92\jdbc\lib\ojdbc14.jar
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Enter the server installation parameters as in step 4
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Save your server installation task by following step 5
