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ACE Management Server Administrator's Manual
Viewing and Changing Licensing Information
After you enter an ACE Management Server serial number, use the Licensing tab to
determine the expiration date, if any.
The serial number is on the registration card in your package. If you purchased
VMware ACE online, the serial number is sent by email.
If the system on which you installed ACE Management Server currently has more than
one valid server license, just one license appears on the page.
You can use the Licensing tab to add or change a serial number, user name, or company
name.
If you make changes to the information on this tab, you must click Apply or Cancel
before you can navigate to another tab.
Using an External Database
The embedded database is an SQLite database. VMware recommends that you use an
external database in production environments.
The embedded database is initialized during server installation and requires no special
configuration. This database is adequate for testing purposes but is not designed to be
effectively shared across multiple processes.
Before you can configure the ACE Management Server to use an external database, you
must create a system DSN and credentials for accessing that data source. See "Set Up
an External Database" on page 39.
Use the following information to help you complete the fields on the Database tab:
Data Source Name (DSN) – Data source name you used when you created a
system DSN entry on the ACE Management Server machine.
User Name and Password – Credentials for a user account that has full access to
the database, including rights to create tables.
After you enter the database connection credentials, the setup application checks
for an existing database.
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After you enter credentials, if the message Compatible schema exists.
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Do you want to reinitialize the schema and overwrite the existing data?
appears, select Use existing schema and data unless you want to erase all data in your
existing database. To reinitialize the database at some later time, you can reopen this
configuration application and return to this page.
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