Configuring connections for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Monitoring Service, and BlackBerry MDS Integration Service store data in their own databases. The database for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server is the BlackBerry Configuration Database.
You create the BlackBerry Configuration Database when you install a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Administration Service or when you run the CreateDB executable. You can create the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service database or BlackBerry Monitoring Service database during the installation processes for the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service or BlackBerry Monitoring Service, respectively.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Monitoring Service, and BlackBerry MDS Integration Service can connect to their databases on the Microsoft® SQL Server® using Windows® authentication or database authentication. By default, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Monitoring Service, and BlackBerry MDS Integration Service log in to their databases using the Windows account that you use to complete the installation process or the database credentials you provided during the installation process.
To support database mirroring for the the BlackBerry Configuration Database or BlackBerry MDS Integration Service database with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you must use Windows authentication. The BlackBerry Monitoring Service does not support database mirroring.
Specifying permissions when you connect to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases using Windows authentication or Microsoft SQL Server authentication
If you connect the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, BlackBerry MDS Integration Service, and BlackBerry Monitoring Service to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases using Windows® authentication or Microsoft® SQL Server® authentication during the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation process, the Windows account or Microsoft SQL Server account that you specify must have database permissions on the database server. The type of permissions that you specify is determined by the setup option that you select and whether you create the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Enterprise Server components or on another database server.
Specifying permissions for the Windows account or Microsoft SQL Server account
If you install Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Express during the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server installation process, you might need to specify permissions for the Windows® account or Microsoft SQL Server account, depending on the type of authentication you select.
When you select Windows authentication during the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation process, the setup application automatically assigns the required permissions to the Windows account that you use to complete the installation process.
When you select Microsoft SQL Server authentication during the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation process, you must assign the required database permissions to the Microsoft SQL Server account that you use to complete the installation process.
Assign permissions to the Windows account or Microsoft SQL Server account
- If you create the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server databases on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and you require the setup application to install Microsoft® SQL Server® Express during the installation process and you choose Windows® authentication, you are not required to assign Microsoft SQL Server permissions to the Windows account. If you want the setup application to install the BlackBerry database notification system, you must assign the Microsoft SQL Server permission for the database system administrator (also called the sysadmin server role in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio) to the Windows account.
If you create the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and you require the setup application to install Microsoft SQL Server Express during the installation process and you choose Microsoft SQL Server authentication, you must assign the database creator (dbcreator server role) Microsoft SQL Server permission to the Microsoft SQL Server account. If you want the setup application to install the BlackBerry database notification system, you must assign the Microsoft SQL Server permission for the database system administrator (also called the sysadmin server role in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio) to the Microsoft SQL Server account.
- If you create the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the computer already hosts a Microsoft SQL Server, you must assign the database creator (dbcreator server role) Microsoft SQL Server permission to the Windows account or Microsoft SQL Server account that you use to complete the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation process. If you want the setup application to install the BlackBerry database notification system, you must assign the Microsoft SQL Server permission for the database system administrator (also called the sysadmin server role in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio) to the Windows account or Microsoft SQL Server account.
- If you create the BlackBerry Enterprise Server databases on a computer that does not host the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you must assign the database creator (dbcreator server role) Microsoft SQL Server permission to the Windows or Microsoft SQL Server account that you use to complete the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation process. If you want the setup application to install the BlackBerry database notification system, you must assign the Microsoft SQL Server permission for the database system administrator (also called the sysadmin server role in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio) to the Windows account or Microsoft SQL Server account.
Configuring authentication to the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service database
When the setup application creates the BlackBerry® MDS Integration Service database during the installation process, you must use the same authentication method and account that you specified for the BlackBerry Configuration Database. The BlackBerry MDS Integration Service requires the same permissions to access the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service database that the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server requires to access the BlackBerry Configuration Database.