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Configuring in a Standalone Environment

This topic demonstrates the two ways of configuring the server database in a standalone environment: via the Logi JReport Server UI, or using the configuration file dbconfig.xml.

Below is a list of the sections covered in this topic:

• Configuring via Server UI
• Configuring in dbconfig.xml

Configuring via Server UI

1. In the Logi JReport Server console, point to Administration on the system toolbar, and then select Configuration > Server DB > System DB/Realm DB/Profiling DB from the drop-down menu to open the corresponding page.
2. Select a realm if you are configuring the realm or profiling database from the Select Realm drop-down list at the top right corner.
3. In the Configuration tab, select a database driver from the Driver drop-down list.

   

   For SQL Server 2005 and later versions, select the driver com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver from the drop-down list; select com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver for versions earlier than SQL Server 2005.

4. In the Driver Class Location text box, type or select the Browse button to specify the location for the driver class.

   For the HSQLDB and Derby databases, you do not need to specify the driver class location. For all other databases, you will have to provide the driver class path information unless it has already been added to the class path during installation or by editing the setenv.bat file (setenv.sh on Unix) in <install_root>\bin.

5. Type a valid URL that can be used to establish a connection to the database. The valid format of the URL should be provided by the driver vendor.
6. Provide the user ID and password.
7. To test the connection, select Test. To update the database configuration and to apply the settings, select Update and then restart the server to finalize the function. All previously published reports and all other information on users, groups and roles will be lost when you restart.

Configuring in dbconfig.xml

You can configure the server database in dbconfig.xml located in <install_root>\bin using either of the following two methods. Note that in dbconfig.xml, <database name> must be Logi JReport Server's inner database name: systemtables for the system database, realmtables for the realm database, or profile for the profiling database.

Method 1: Specifying the URL, driver, user and password respectively

<database name="systemtables/realmtables/profile">
    <url>...</url>
    <driver>...</driver>
    <user>...</user>
    <password>...</password>
</database>

The configuration via this method can also be modified in the server console.

Below are examples for your reference:

• The following example is for connecting to an Oracle database.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <dbconfig>
      <workspace name="systemRealm">
          <database name="systemtables">
              <url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@dbhost:1521:SystemDB</url>
              <user>test</user>
              <password>1234</password> 
              <driver>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</driver>
          </database>
      </workspace>
      <workspace name="defaultRealm">
          <database name="realmtables">
              <url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@dbhost:1521:RealmDB</url>
              <user>test</user>
              <password>1234</password> 
              <driver>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</driver>
          </database>
      </workspace>
  </dbconfig>

• The following example is for using the DataDirect driver to connect to a SQL Server database.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <dbconfig>
   
      <workspace name="systemRealm">
          <database name="systemtables">
          <url>
              jdbc:datadirect:sqlserver://dbhost:1433;DatabaseName=SystemDB
          </url>
          <user>test</user>
          <password>1234</password>
          <driver>
              com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
          </driver>
          <dbtype>Microsoft SQLServer</dbtype>
          </database> 
      </workspace>
      <workspace name="defaultRealm"> 
          <database name="realmtables">
              <url>
                  jdbc:datadirect:sqlserver://dbhost:1433;DatabaseName=RealmDB
              </url>
              <user>test</user>
               <password>1234</password>
              <driver>
                  com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
              </driver>
              <dbtype>Microsoft SQLServer</dbtype>
           </database>
   
      </workspace>
  </dbconfig>

Method 2: Specifying a JDBC data source using the <datasource></datasource> tags

The URL format of a JDBC data source is:

jdbc://[<jdbc-user:jdbc-password>@]<jdbc-url>[#<attribute-name=attribute-value>,]

For example:

<database name="systemtables/realmtables/profile">
    <datasource>
        jdbc://user:password@jdbc:odbc:jreport-realmtables#driver=sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver
    </datasource>
</database>

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