Optional creation of the administration database

If you want to activate the option to install the administration relational database when you run the Ant tasks or the Server Configuration Tool, you must have certain database access rights that entitle you to create the databases, or the users, or both, that are required by the MobileFirst Server administration.

If you have sufficient administration credentials on the relational databases, and if you enter the administrator user name and password when prompted, or use Ant files with dba tags, the installation tools can create the databases for you. Otherwise, you need to ask your database administrator to create the required database for you. In this case, the database must be created before you start the installation tools.

If you want to use a Cloudant® database for the MobileFirst administration, ensure that you have access to a valid Cloudant account, and that a user with basic authentication credentials is defined to create the databases. Unlike relational databases, the Cloudant databases are not created during the installation process, but when the MobileFirst administration is started after it was deployed on the application server. Both the Cloudant account URL and user credentials that are mentioned above are used to create the databases.

The following topics describe the procedure for the supported database management systems.