Activating the Database Service: Next Steps

Now that the service has been created, some additional procedures are necessary to activate it. Some of these steps apply to all systems; some apply only to customers who are using database auditing.

These steps are:

Update the database driver configuration file as appropriate depending on the login procedure you have chosen.

For more information, see the section "Updating the database driver configuration file".
Link identities to the Single Sign-on system depending on the login procedure you have chosen.

For more information, see the section "Linking user identities to the database service".

Updating the database driver configuration file

The database driver configuration file must be updated to contain the name of the database service. Use the service name you configured when you created the service. The required syntax for the database driver configuration file is:

SERVICENAME=YOUR_DB_SERVICE

For more information about the database driver configuration file, see Lawson Administration: Data Access for the RDBMS system you use.

Linking user identities to the database service

For Oracle or IBM DB2, if you use the USE_USER_AND_PRIVILEGED_ID, USE_PRIVILEGED_ID, or USE_USER_ID login procedures, link all users to the database service by creating an identity for each user on the service. The procedures for adding and updating users describe how to do this. Typically, you create identities for users on the database service (and all other services they need identities for) when you add them to the Lawson repository (LDAP directory).

For SQL Server, if you use the USE_PRIVILEGED_ID or USE_USER_ID login procedures, link all users to the database service by creating an identity for each user on the service. The procedures for adding and updating users describe how to do this. Typically, you create identities for users on the database service (and all other services they need identities for) when you add them to the Lawson repository (LDAP directory).