Foglight 5.9.8 - Installing Foglight on Windows with an External Microsoft SQL Server Database

Running the Management Server

The instructions in this section assume that you have already installed Foglight. If you have not, see Installing Foglight for installation instructions.

For more details, see these topics:

Manual database configuration

If you chose Manually create the repository database while installing the Management Server for use with an external database, there are two ways in which you can configure the database before starting the Management Server. Choose the one that best suits your needs:

Option 1 - Run the Foglight database tool to configure the database

Run Foglight’s database tool from the command line after exiting the installer. The database tool is located in the <foglight_home>\client\ directory.

NOTE: Option 1 does not currently support the creation of a SQL Server® database with Windows® integration.

NOTE: The following SQL warnings may appear when creating the database on SQL Server®: 2012-07-03 14:52:21.231 INFO Create database "foglight"... 2012-07-03 14:52:21.809 WARN SQL Warning: Changed database context to 'master'. 2012-07-03 14:52:46.981 WARN SQL Warning: Changed database context to 'foglight'. 2012-07-03 14:52:47.044 INFO Create Schema for database "foglight"... 2012-07-03 14:52:47.512 WARN SQL Warning: Warning! The maximum key length is 900 bytes. The index 'idx_cfgbinder_agent' has maximum length of 1530 bytes. For some combination of large values, the insert/update operation will fail. 2012-07-03 14:52:47.715 WARN SQL Warning: Warning! The maximum key length is 900 bytes. The index 'incident_ticket_index' has maximum length of 1020 bytes. For some combination of large values, the insert/update operation will fail. 2012-07-03 14:52:47.715 WARN SQL Warning: Warning! The maximum key length is 900 bytes. The index 'idx_pcm_name_type' has maximum length of 1786 bytes. For some combination of large values, the insert/update operation will fail. 2012-07-03 14:52:47.934 INFO Populate for database "foglight"...

NOTE: The -Ddb.admin.user must exist, and must have database administrator privileges.

NOTE: The tool creates the -Ddb.schema.username user when you run the command.

NOTE: To delete the database and start over, run the database tool with the dropdb option instead of the createdb option shown in the preceding example. The dropdb option does not remove an existing or new Repository User account.

Option 2 - Run SQL scripts to configure the database

If you clicked Create during the database installation step, the SQL scripts in the <foglight_home>\scripts\sql directory are prepared with the provided configuration options. SQL Server® generates four SQL scripts for each Authentication type:

You can review these scripts before running them.

You must run the configured scripts against the database using a third-party tool.

NOTE: In the following commands, replace <admin_username> and <admin_password> with the user name and password for the user account of the Microsoft SQL Server administrator.

NOTE: The script sqlsvr_create_db.sql does not drop the existing schema.

NOTE: Warnings related to the maximum length of index keys appear. These warnings are safe to ignore.

NOTE: The script sqlsvr_integratedauth_create_db.sql does not drop the existing schema.

After you have run all four scripts, you can start the Management Server. Proceed to Starting and stopping the Management Server.