Creating a tablespace and a user for BMC Network Automation installation (Linux)
Before installing BMC Network Automation, you must complete the following tasks on the target host:
To create a user for the BMC Network Automation installation (Linux)
You must create an operating system user account (for example, bcan) when installing the BMC Network Automation product. For example:
- Open a command window.
At the prompt, enter the following commands:
adduser <userName>
passwd <userName>
To create a tablespace and user for Oracle
As a database administrator user (for example, system) perform the following steps:
- Create a BCAN data tablespace with a default data file size of 500 MB and set the Auto extend option on.
- Create an Oracle database user (for example, bbna_8100) and grant the following privileges :
- create/alter/drop tables/indices/constraints/views
- insert/update/delete rows
The sample database script below further explains the steps.
CREATE SMALLFILE TABLESPACE "BCAN" LOGGING DATAFILE '/data1/oracle/oradata/ora11db/bcan.dbf'
SIZE 500 M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 512M MAXSIZE 30720 M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 56K
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;
CREATE USER "BCAN" PROFILE "DEFAULT" IDENTIFIED BY bcan123 DEFAULT TABLESPACE "BCAN" QUOTA
UNLIMITED ON "BCAN";
GRANT CONNECT, RESOURCE TO "BCAN";
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