Applications: Configuring External Databases

The following sections provide information on configuring external databases.

The Next Generation Hardware Appliance supports the usage of external databases.
By default, the Internal Database is configured.

In the EJBCA Next Generation Hardware Appliance,
only the Internal Database can be used with the built-in clustering.

In case the database user does not have sufficient permission to create database schemas, the following link refers to the SQL script used to create the required database tables.

All scripts have the name of the DBMS they are intended for in their filename.

There are scripts for table creation called "create-tables-ejbca-<dbms-name>.sql."
and one general file that is used to create the required DB indices called "create-index-ejbca.sql."

Please refer to: EJBCA-SQL-Scripts

Log in to your Next Generation Hardware Appliance.
Open the Applications page.
In the section Application Settings the Database Selection tiles are displayed.
Supported external database types are:

Configuring an external database on the Applications page will store all application data on that specific external database server.