Installing Cost Management on a MS Windows Server

To prepare the Windows server for use with BMC AMI Cost Management:

The following table provides the links to the tasks for installing the Capacity Database Web Services:

To access the database from a remote server/client computer, the database client components must be installed as follows:

To set up a database to use as a Capacity Database Web Services repository from BMC AMI Cost Management, a SQL Server or an Oracle database can be used. If an existing Visualizer CDB is available, then that database can be used for the Cost Management tables as well.

To set up a SQL Server database to be used with Cost Management or Visualizer use one of the following links:

To set up the Capacity Database Web Services to use Windows Authentication complete the following task:

The Visualizer accesses the database through Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity interface (ODBC). See the following links to set up an ODBC entry:

Before a database can be used by Capacity Database Web Services it must be added to the Automator Catalog.

To set up BMC AMI Cost Management, see the following links:

To set up BMC AMI Cost Management - Strobe integration, see the following link: