Database administrator installation tasks
The database administrator must prepare the databases that are required for FileNet® P8 , which includes gathering information about data sources, creating databases and database accounts.
Review all rows that are assigned to the database administrator (DBA) in the Installation and Upgrade Worksheet. While you complete the following preparation tasks, provide values for the rows that are appropriate to your installation. (Your organization might have different roles, and some of the responsibilities of listed roles vary from the roles that are assigned by default in this documentation.)
- Click the AutoFilter drop-down arrow in the Role column header and select DBA.
- Further filter the result set by clicking the AutoFilter drop-down arrow in any of the other columns and selecting a value or clear a filter by selecting (All).
The Content Platform Engine does not recognize delimiting characters in database identifiers and special graphic symbols like currency symbols in database passwords.
If you use such characters for passwords, and, for identifiers like schema-name, interactions between the Content Platform Engine and your database service fail. To avoid this issue, consult the documentation for your service and create identifiers and passwords that do not include such characters.
As an alternative, you can use the Customize Worksheet filtering macro, which is in the Instruction tab on the Installation and Upgrade Worksheet.
If you are installing in a non-English environment, review the information and procedures in Preparing non-English environments for installing FileNet P8 before you begin your preparation tasks.
If you are installing Content Platform Engine in a highly available environment, it is
important that you follow the high availability steps within the Content Platform Engine installation tasks. If Content Platform Engine is not available due to a system failure, the
other components are affected as well.
Review the information in Tuning FileNet P8 databases before you determine whether the additional database tuning can improve initial system performance depending on your workload.