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Set Up an External Database
Before you begin, make sure that you have one of the following supported database
servers:
Windows‐based servers – Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or higher;
Oracle Database 10g
If you use a Microsoft SQL Server database, the database must be hosted on a
system that uses the same locale as the system that hosts ACE Management Server.
For example, if ACE Management Server is installed on a Japanese system, the
database server must also be installed on a Japanese system and must use Japanese
collation.
Linux‐based servers – PostgreSQL 7.4 or higher; Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advanced Server 4.5 or higher.
Before you install the database on a Linux host, make sure the unixODBC RPM package
is installed on the Linux system. VMware recommends that you update the package to
the latest version released for your specific Linux distribution. The unixODBC package
provides an ODBC API to programs running on Linux systems that is similar to the
Windows ODBC API.
The package contains the libodbc shared library, providing the ODBC Driver Manager
API to other programs, a set of configuration utilities, and ODBC drivers for popular
databases. On both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, the
ODBC driver for PostgreSQL is included in the unixODBC binary distribution package.
Also, make sure the unixODBC-gui-qt package is installed (this utility is included in
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux unixODBC package). This package is required to use the
ODBCConfig X11 graphical configuration tool for setting up a data source name (DSN).
To set up an external database
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Install a database server on a host.
The external database does not have to be installed on the same server as ACE
Management Server, but it must be installed on the same platform. For example, if
ACE Management Server is installed on a Windows host, the database server must
also be installed on a Windows host.
ACE Management Server creates the database schema automatically if proper
access rights are granted.
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