IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Configuring an ODBC data source for a Microsoft SQL data warehouse

A Microsoft SQL client on Windows requires an ODBC connection to the data warehouse. For the Tivoli® Performance Analyzer, you must configure the ODBC connection manually.

Before you begin

This procedure uses default values for the data source name and warehouse user ID. (Default values are used in configuration procedures for warehousing components.) Substitute different values if you do not want to use the default values.

About this task

Complete the following procedure to set up an ODBC connection for a Tivoli Performance Analyzer on Windows to a local or remote Tivoli Data Warehouse.

Procedure

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Click Administrative Tools → Data Sources (ODBC)
  3. Click Add in the System DSN tab in the ODBC Data Source Administrator window.
  4. Select SQL Server and click Finish.
  5. Enter ITM Warehouse in the Name field.
  6. Select the Microsoft SQL Server where the Tivoli Data Warehouse is located from the drop down list and click Next.
  7. Select With SQL Server authentication using a login ID and password entered by the user.
  8. Enter ITMUser for the Login ID. The user ID must match exactly, including case, what was created in the SQL Server database if using database authentication or the ID that was created in the Windows OS. Mixing the case will cause tables to be created with dbo as the owner rather than ITMUser. This will cause many warehousing components to not work correctly.
  9. Type a password for the user in the Password field. The default password is itmpswd1.
  10. Click Next.
  11. Click Next again.
  12. Click Finish.
  13. Click Test Data Source to test the connection to the database.
  14. Click OK.


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