About this task
When you have verified that the JDBC Provider is configured
properly, the data source for BigFix® Remote
Control must
be created using that JDBC Provider.
To create the data source
complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Select .
- Select the scope with Node and Server.
- Click New.
- Specify the data source information
- Specify the data source information.
- Data source name
- Specify a name for the data source. This can be any required name.
- JNDI Name
- This should be set to jdbc/trcdb
Note: If
this name is changed, further changes to the common.properties file
are also required.
Click
Next.
- Select JDBC provider
Click Select
Existing JDBC provider and select Oracle JDBC
Driver. Click Next.
- Enter database specific properties for the data source.
- URL
- url=jdbc:oracle:thin@dbserver:1521:SID
where dbserver is
the IP address of the server.
SID is the
Oracle database SID.
- Data store helper class name
- Accept the default Data store helper class name, Oracle
11g.data store helper.
Accept remaining default selected values and click
Next.
- Set up security aliases
- Select Component-managed authentication alias and
select the alias you previously created for Oracle.
- Accept the default of none in the remaining lists.
- Click Next.
- On the summary screen, click Finish to
create the data source.
- Click Save.
You can
select the newly created datasource and click Test,
to test connectivity.