Specifying the location of the OpenEdge Management Trend Database
OpenEdge Management allows you to store trend data, which is the monitoring information OpenEdge Management maintains, in either a local or remote OpenEdge Management Trend Database. These storage options appear in the Trend database location section.
If you choose to send trend data to a local database (which is the default), you must specify the trend database location and the port used to connect to that database. If you choose to use a remote database, you must specify the host name and Web server port, user name, and password of the remote OpenEdge Management Web server. The trend database must be locally configured at the remote location. The user credentials with the Trending role must be created on the remote OpenEdge Management Web server. See Adding a new user for more information. All values you enter for either option are validated.
If you are trending to a remote database and want to establish secure transmission of data, you can choose to use the HTTPS protocol. See SettingUp Secure Communications for more information.
Note: You can elect to store trend data in a remote OpenEdge Management Trend Database only if you install OpenEdge Management on both the local machine and the remote machine.
To specify the location of the OpenEdge Management Trend Database:
1. Go to the OpenEdge Management Configuration page's Trend database location section.
2. To store trend data locally:
a. Select the Store trend data in a local OpenEdge Management database option.
b. Specify the Trend database location. You can confirm the predefined explicit path, which matches where the trend database is located by default, or you can type a different path to the database.
Note that if you enter a path location for the OpenEdge Management Trend Database that is different from the explicit path provided by default, you must also copy the OpenEdge Management Trend Database to the new location. You must use either the procopy or prodb command to preserve the schema integrity.
The configuration name of the trending database is OpenEdge Management Trend Database. The name of the physical database must be fathom.
c. Enter the port number in the Trend database port field.
3. To store trend data remotely:
a. Select the Store trend data in a remote OpenEdge Management database option.
b. Enter the host name of the machine in the Remote web server hostname field. This is the host name where the remote database is installed. The name can be either a valid IP address or a name; it does not have to be fully qualified.
c. Enter the HTTP port number in the Remote web server port field. This is the port number that the OpenEdge Management Web server uses to connect to the remote OpenEdge Management system.
d. Select the Use HTTP protocol? option to use secure communication protocols to connect to the remote OpenEdge Management system.
e. Enter the user name and password in the Remote web server user and Remote web server password fields, respectively.
When you choose to store trend data on a remote OpenEdge Management database, the assumption is that you have already configured the OpenEdge Management Trend Database on the remote system. OpenEdge Management displays a warning message if it cannot verify that the remote database is properly configured.
