If you use the default installation directory, you do not
have to configure the data source.
Before you begin
However, if you change the default installation location (for
example, if you change
C:\ProgramFiles\Tivoli\TSM\FastBack\Reporting to
D:\ProgramFiles\Tivoli\TSM\FastBack),
you must configure the data source. If you change the data source
for one report, the change affects all reports. You do not have to
configure the data source for each report.
About this task
To configure the data source for a report, complete the following
steps:
Procedure
- From the Windows Start
menu, select .
- In the browser window, a message displays a warning about
the website security certificate. Continue to the website.
- Type the user ID and password you set during the Tivoli® Common Reporting installation
process.
- Click Log in.
- In the navigation pane, click the + icon
next to Reporting to expand the tree.
- Click FastBack Reporting. In the
pane next to the tree, FastBack Reporting information
is displayed. The default view is a Navigation tab
with Report Sets as the root.
- Click the + icon next to to expand the tree. Select FastBack Reporting.
- From the table of reports, right-click a report; then,
click Data Sources from the pop-up menu.
- Select the FastBackDataSource data
source and click Edit. The FastBackDataSource data
source is a database. When the database is identified, the software
can query data necessary to generate the report.
- Change the *JDBC URL column to your database. The JDBC URL looks like the following example: jdbc:derby:C:\Program
Files\Tivoli\TSM\FastBack\reporting\database\FBHDB
The
database location is relative to your FastBack Reporting installation
directory. You must change the following part of the path to match
your installation directory: C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\FastBack\reporting\
- Click Save.