Appendix E. Preparing a Local Manually-Configured PostgreSQL Database for Use with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

Procedure E.1. Preparing a Local Manually-Configured PostgreSQL Database for use with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

1. Initialize the PostgreSQL database, start the postgresql service, and ensure that this service starts on boot:

   # su -l postgres -c "/usr/bin/initdb --locale=en_US.UTF8 --auth='ident' --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data/"
   # service postgresql start
   # chkconfig postgresql on

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2. Connect to the psql command line interface as the postgres user:

   # su - postgres
   $ psql

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3. Create a user for the Manager to use when it writes to and reads from the database. The default user name on the Manager is engine:

   postgres=# create role user_name with login encrypted password 'password';

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4. Create a database in which to store data about the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. The default database name on the Manager is engine:

   postgres=# create database database_name owner user_name template template0 encoding 'UTF8' lc_collate 'en_US.UTF-8' lc_ctype 'en_US.UTF-8';
   

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5. Connect to the new database and add the plpgsql language:

   postgres=# \c database_name
   database_name=# CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql;

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6. Ensure the database can be accessed remotely by enabling md5 client authentication. Edit the /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf file, and add the following line immediately underneath the line starting with local at the bottom of the file:

   host    [database name]    [user name]    0.0.0.0/0  md5
   host    [database name]    [user name]    ::0/0      md5

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7. Restart the postgresql service:

   # service postgresql restart

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