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Ingres II HOWTO
Pal Domokos
pal@palslib.com
Revision History
Revision V1.1.1 2001/09/05 Revised by: pd
E-mail changed; links to further Ingres resources.
Revision V1.1 2000/06/20 Revised by: pd
Extended with material on the full version of Ingres II 2.0
Revision V1.01 1999/12/23 Revised by: pd
Minor fixes
Revision V1.0 1999/11/07 Revised by: pd
Original version
This document helps install the Ingres II Relational Database Management
System on Linux. It covers the setup of both the free Software Development
Kit and the full version of Ingres. Further sections try to make it easier to
start working with Ingres.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Copyright
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. New Versions of the HOWTO
1.4. Credits
1.5. Audience
2. Ingres
2.1. University Ingres and Commercial Ingres
2.2. The Software Development Kit
2.3. The Beta Version
2.4. The Ingres II Full Edition
2.5. The Unicenter TNG Framework
3. System Requirements
3.1. Hardware
3.2. Software
3.3. Kernel Parameters
3.4. The ingres User and II_SYSTEM
4. Preparing for the Installation
4.1. Ingres Environment Variables
4.2. II_LOG_FILE and II_DUAL_LOG
4.3. Database Locations
4.4. The iidbdb Database
4.5. II_DATABASE
4.6. II_CHECKPOINT
4.7. II_DUMP
4.8. II_JOURNAL
4.9. II_WORK
4.10. Other Ingres Environment Variables
5. The Installation Process
5.1. Starting the Installation Program
5.2. Express Install
5.3. Manual Install
5.4. Completing the Initial Configuration
5.5. Re-installation
5.6. Command Line Install (SDK)
5.7. Client Installation (Full Version)
5.8. The Installer's Log
5.9. Checking the Installation
6. Basic System and Database Administration
6.1. Starting and Stopping Ingres
6.2. New Ingres Users and Locations
6.3. Creating and Destroying Databases
6.4. Collation Sequences
6.5. Backup and Recovery
6.6. Configuring Ingres
6.7. Monitoring Ingres
6.8. Message Files
7. Ingres/Net
7.1. User Authentication
7.2. Login Account Passwords
7.3. Installation Passwords
7.4. ingvalidpw
7.5. Setting up the Client
7.6. Setting up the Server
7.7. Using Net
8. ICE (Internet Commerce Enabled)
8.1. Configuring Apache
8.2. ICE Setup
9. Miscellaneous Topics
9.1. Automatic Startup and Shutdown
9.2. ingmenu
9.3. Circumventing Ingres Net
9.4. Forms-Based Development Tools
9.5. Ingperl and Perl DBI
9.6. Ingres links
1. Introduction
1.1. Copyright
Copyright © 1999-2001 by Pal Domokos.
Please freely copy and distribute (sell or give away) this document in any
format. It is requested that corrections and/or comments be forwarded to the
document maintainer. You may create a derivative work and distribute it
provided that you:
1. Send your derivative work (in the most suitable format such as SGML) to
the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) or the like for posting on the
Internet. If not the LDP, then let the LDP know where it is available.
2. License the derivative work with this same license or use GPL. Include a
copyright notice and at least a pointer to the license used.
3. Give due credit to previous authors and major contributors. If you are
considering making a derived work other than a translation, it is
requested that you discuss your plans with the current maintainer.
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1.2. Disclaimer
To put it briefly: there is no warranty about the validity of any other
statement in this document. Read and use at your own risk.
Furthermore, I am not an employee of Computer Associates International and I
have no official links with CA. This HOWTO is not official documentation.
All copyrights are held by their respective owners. Use of a term in this
document should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or
service mark.
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1.3. New Versions of the HOWTO
The latest version of this HOWTO can always be found on the [http://
www.linuxdoc.org] Linux Documentation Project's site, in various formats:
* HTML - multiple pages
* HTML - multiple pages: tarred and gzipped
* HTML - single page
* PDF
* [http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ps/
IngresII-HOWTO.ps.gz] PostScript - gzipped
* [http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/IngresII-HOWTO] Text
* SGML (DocBook) source - gzipped
The LDP has many mirrors around the world, as listed on [http://
www.linuxdoc.org/mirrors.html] http://www.linuxdoc.org/mirrors.html. Some of
these mirrors may be out of date, though. Therefore I suggest you check LDP's
primary site for new versions.
HOWTOs are also bundled with most Linux distributions. If you are reading
this HOWTO from your Linux CD, also take a look at LDP's main site to check
if a newer version exists.
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1.4. Credits
I would like to thank for all the feedback I have received so far. I found
especially valuable the contributions of Jorgen Heesche (on forms-based
development tools), and Gerhard Hofmann (on the automatic startup and
shutdown of Ingres).
Last, but not least, my thanks go to CA for making it possible for me to
examine the Ingres II 2.0 Enterprise Edition for Linux.
Naturally, I continue to welcome any comments, criticisms and suggestions.
Just email me at <pal@palslib.com>.
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1.5. Audience
This HOWTO aims to help install Ingres II on (Intel) Linux. As always, help
is useful for those who need it and can utilize it as well.
Therefore:
* If you are an Ingres pro familiar with Linux then you do not really need
to read this HOWTO. Skim through it though if you have time.
* If you have no previous background in relational database management
(experience with at least one real RDBMS, not some dBase-like file
management system), you do not know UNIX and have just started using
Linux, this HOWTO will not make an easy reading for you. Even then, I do
not want to persuade you not to try to install and use Ingres. Do not
give up easy!
If you are not a novice in database management and have some working
knowledge of Linux, this HOWTO is for you! We are not going to discuss the
basics of relational database management or SQL in this document, neither are
we going to elaborate on how to edit text files on Linux. You can find as
much information on these topics as you want in numerous places. This HOWTO
is not an Ingres guide, either: the Ingres manuals serve that purpose.
The objective of this HOWTO is that the reader can prepare for, then
implement the installation of Ingres II on Linux, through simple and
understandable steps. It also gives starting points for basic Ingres system
and database administration.
I can only hope that the HOWTO reaches its goal.
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2. Ingres
In this section the Ingres II Relational Database Management System is
introduced and you come to know how to get it.
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2.1. University Ingres and Commercial Ingres
Let us start with an important fact: there are two different types of Ingres.
The original one, which was designed and developed in the seventies by a
research group led by Michael Stonebraker at the University of California,
Berkeley, was the first open source relational database management system: it
was free to use and distribute, source code included. In fact, it is still
free software, although its development stopped in 1989. Its last version
(version 8.9) made it into some Linux distributions as well. If you are
interested in it, you can download it from, say, the SuSE site. The packages
are:
* [ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/ap1/ingres.rpm] The main
software
* [ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/ap1/ingrtool.rpm] The
tools
In 1979, with the foundation of Relational Technology, the career of
Commercial Ingres started. Since 1995 it has been distributed by Computer
Associates. Its latest version is Ingres II 2.0. This HOWTO deals with the
installation of this type of Ingres.
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2.2. The Software Development Kit
Ingres, being commercial software, is not free to use. However, CA, like most
RDBMS vendors, offers a free version of it (the Software Development Kit) to
everyone who is interested in learning Ingres. The SDK has two variants, one
for Windows NT and one for Linux. These variants are not quite the same as
far as the included components are concerned. Obviously, we are engaged in
installing the SDK for Linux here. This contains the following elements:
* Intelligent DBMS: the database engine.
* Internet Commerce Enabled (ICE): Ingres' propriatery CGI solution to
connect a database to the Web.
* Enhanced Security: the tool supporting mandatory access control.
* C2 Security Auditing: the possibility of C2 level auditing.
* Terminal Monitors: forms-based and command line SQL interfaces.
* Querying and Reporting Tools: forms-based querying, report-writing and
report-running tools plus a forms editor.
* Querying and Reporting Runtime: like the previous one, but without the
forms editor.
* Vision Pro: integrated, forms-based development environment with a code
generator.
* Embedded SQL Precompilers: precompilers for embedding SQL statements in
3GL applications. Supported languages are: C, C++, COBOL, and Fortran.
You can order a free copy of the Ingres SDK CD on [http://www.cai.com/
registration/cd_ingres.htm] http://www.cai.com/registration/cd_ingres.htm.
Remember that you are not allowed to use the SDK in a business environment.
It is for evaluating Ingres and prototyping applications only.
The SDK CD contains both the Windows NT and the Linux versions of the
Software Development Kit. You can find the Linux files in the following
directories:
* /doc: the manuals in PDF format, together with the Linux version of
Acrobat Reader (linux-ar-40.tar.gz). The installer will not copy the
documentation to hard disk. These manuals are also available on [http://
www.cai.com/products/ingres/documentation_set.htm] http://www.cai.com/
products/ingres/documentation_set.htm. I will reference some of them
later in this document.
* /int_lnx: this directory contains ingres.tar, the tarball to be
installed. ingres.tar can be installed directly from the CD or you can
copy it to hard disk first.
Do not forget to read the Readme file in the root directory on the CD.
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2.3. The Beta Version
The freshest beta version of the SDK can always be downloaded from [http://
www.cai.com/products/betas/ingres_linux/ingres_linux.htm] http://www.cai.com/
products/betas/ingres_linux/ingres_linux.htm.
Note At the time of writing, the version of the downloadable beta is 2.5. The
next revision of the HOWTO will cover the installation of this version,
too. The 2.0 beta is still available on [ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/marketing
/ingres/ingresII9808libc6.tar] ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/marketing/ingres/
ingresII9808libc6.tar.
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2.4. The Ingres II Full Edition
In February 2000 Computer Associates announced the general availability of
Ingres II 2.0 for Linux. Besides the components found in the SDK, the full
edition contains more modules, such as:
* Net: this component makes possible for Ingres utilities and user
applications to access databases residing on different installations.
* Replicator: support for replication functions.
* Star: for handling distributed databases.
* Enterprise Access: communication with different database management
systems and other, non-relational data sources (used to be called
Gateways).
* Protocol Bridge: for communicating with clients on different types of
networks.
* Spatial Object Library: for handling two-dimensional spatial objects.
The CD, besides the /doc and /int_lnx directories that are common with the
SDK, contains install.sh, the general Ingres installer and its files. More on
install.sh later, in subsection Starting the Installation Program.
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2.5. The Unicenter TNG Framework
At last, let me note that the Linux version of CA's Unicenter TNG Framework
also includes Ingres as its embedded database management system. For this
reason, knowing Ingres may come in handy when using Unicenter, too. You can
order a free Unicenter TNG Framework CD on
* [http://www.cai.com/registration/tng_framework_linux/index.htm] http://
www.cai.com/registration/tng_framework_linux/index.htm for RedHat, or
* [http://www.cai.com/registration/tng_framework_linux/suse_linux.htm]
http://www.cai.com/registration/tng_framework_linux/suse_linux.htm for
SuSE.
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3. System Requirements
In this section you will see what hardware and software requirements must be
met before you can install Ingres. The ingres user, owner of the
installation, makes a debut, too.
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3.1. Hardware
The minimal hardware capable of running Ingres is:
* 486x33 processor, Pentium recommended.
* 16 Mb RAM, with 32 Mb swap space (64 Mb RAM recommended).
* 200 Mb disk space if you install everything (150 Mb will do for the SDK).
You do not need to have this space in one file system: we will discuss
the possibilities in the section Preparing for the Installation.
Note This is the minimum recommended configuration. Ingres, like most other
RDBMSs, is a fairly resource-hungry application. While your development
system will probably run beatifully on a 166 MHz Pentium with 64 Mb RAM,
a live system with potentially many concurrent users would require more
iron.
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3.2. Software
The following software must be present for Ingres to run:
* kernel 2.0.34 or higher.
* libcrypt.so - this library is not included in every Linux distribution.
If this is the case with your system, check your distribution's Web site:
they must have it somewhere.
* uncompress - certain Linux distributions (such as Caldera's Open Linux
2.2) do not contain the ncompress package. Again, check your
distribution's Web site if you do not have it.
Working glibc versions:
+------------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| glibc | SDK | Full Version |
+------------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| glibc 2.07 (eg RedHat | Yes. | No. |
| 5.2) | | |
+------------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| glibc 2.1 (eg RedHat | Yes but you need the | Yes. |
| 6.0) | RedHat compatibility | |
| | packages and an Ingres | |
| |patch to be able to use | |
| | the forms-based | |
| |development tools. See | |
| |Forms-Based Development | |
| | Tools for details. | |
+------------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| glibc 2.1.1, 2.1.2 (eg | No. | Yes. |
| RedHat 6.1) | | |
+------------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| glibc 2.1.3 (eg RedHat | See glibc 2.1. | Yes. |
| 6.2) | | |
+------------------------+------------------------+------------------------+
If you are unsure of the version of your glibc, check the /lib directory:
# ls -l /lib/libc*so
The output should be something like:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|-rwxr-xr-x ... /lib/libc-2.1.3.so |
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The version of my glibc is apparently 2.1.3.
Note There is no guarantee that if your system meets the above requirements
you will be able to install Ingres on it. Sticking to a distribution
that is explicitly mentioned in the release notes of your Ingres version
is the best way to avoid installation problems.
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3.3. Kernel Parameters
The default settings of the Linux kernel are adequate for a development
Ingres environment. For a live system, however, probably to increase the size
of the database cache(s), you may want to change the built-in value of the
SHMMAX parameter. This parameter sets the maximum size of a shared memory
segment. By default, it is 32 Mb which allows for a somewhat lesser buffer
cache.
You have two choices to change the value of SHMMAX:
As root, simply echo the new value into /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax:
#echo 83886080 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
In the example above, we set the value of SHMMAX to 80 Mb. The change takes
effect immediately but after a reboot, the original value is restored.
The other possibility is to change SHMMAX's default value in the kernel
source (the relevant header file is /usr/src/linux/include/asm/shmparam.h if
you have installed the source). In this case, you may also have to modify
other parameters in the file, then rebuild the kernel. I suggest you do it
only if you know what you are doing. For information on how to configure and
compile the kernel see [http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html] The
Linux Kernel HOWTO by Brian Ward.
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3.4. The ingres User and II_SYSTEM
We need an account called ingres to install and run Ingres. He will own the
installed software and only he can perform system management tasks such as
starting and stopping Ingres.
The ingres user may belong to any group. In the following example, we will
create a separate group for him.
The verified (therefore, recommended) shell for the ingres user is bash. All
examples in this paper apply to this shell. If you use some other shell
(which is probably just as fine), take into account the differences in
syntax.
The binaries, shared libraries, configuration files and other files which
make up the Ingres software, will be located in a tree structure after
installation. You will set the root of this tree via the shell variable
II_SYSTEM in the environment of the ingres user (to be exact, the root
directory will be $II_SYSTEM/ingres).
If you plan to install the whole software, either the SDK, or the full
version, make sure you have the following free space under $II_SYSTEM/ingres:
+------------+-------------+
| SDK |Full Version |
+------------+-------------+
| 70 Mb | 90 Mb |
+------------+-------------+
10 Mb extra free space is needed during installation.
Tip If this is the first time you install Ingres (I hope you start with the
SDK, not a live system), I suggest you keep the whole installation (the
Ingres software, databases, backups, sort areas, etc.) in one place so
that you can find every component easily. If you have at least 150-200 Mb
free space under $II_SYSTEM/ingres and you do not plan to create large
databases (at least, not for some time), your system will work without
problems. Should you at any later time run out of space, you will always
have the possibility to relocate some of your databases to other
partitions.
In the following, I will assume that II_SYSTEM is set to /opt.
Logging in as root, execute the tasks mentioned above:
# useradd -d /opt/ingres -s /bin/bash ingres
# chmod 755 /opt/ingres
# passwd ingres
The useradd command creates a group with the same name as the new user if you
do not specify the group on the command line. It also creates the user's home
directory.
We set the home directory of ingres to /opt/ingres ($II_SYSTEM/ingres). This
is not mandatory but convenient.
Finally, append the following lines to the .bashrc file of ingres:
umask 022
export II_SYSTEM=/opt
export PATH=$II_SYSTEM/ingres/bin:$II_SYSTEM/ingres/utility:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:$II_SYSTEM/ingres/lib
export ING_EDIT=/bin/vi
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]
then
export TERM_INGRES=vt100fx
else
export TERM_INGRES=vt100f
fi
ING_EDIT sets the editor that can be called from Ingres utilities or
application programs. Naturally, you can use any editor, not just vi. You
must, however, specify the whole access path to the program. (If you stick to
vi, check if it is under /bin: it may be somewhere else in your system.)
Note If the EDITOR shell variable is set, it overrides the value of ING_EDIT.
Setting TERM_INGRES is necessary for the terminal to work properly.
Forms-based Ingres utilities, such as the installer itself, and also
applications created with traditional Ingres development tools (ABF, Vision)
make heavy use of function keys. The .bashrc above sets TERM_INGRES according
to the terminal type (X, or VT100-like).
These settings must be included in the .bashrc file of every Ingres user.
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4. Preparing for the Installation
This is the longest section and so it should be: after careful planning the
installation itself should be an easy task.
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4.1. Ingres Environment Variables
You will use Ingres environment variables to determine where to put further
elements (besides the software itself) of the Ingres installation. These
variables, unlike II_SYSTEM, are not shell variables but rather parameters of
Ingres stored in a file. Some of them can be changed at any time after the
installation, but altering the value of others requires a whole re-install.
Later you will see which of them are of this "stable" nature.
During installation, you can choose between setting these variables manually
or letting the installer set them to their default values (Express Install
option).
In the following, we will take the relevant Ingres environment variables one
by one and see what each of them is good for. It may help if you put their
planned values on paper. You can find an Installation Worksheet in the
Getting Started Guide which you can print out and use for this purpose.
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4.2. II_LOG_FILE and II_DUAL_LOG
Ingres uses an installation-wide transaction log file to record information
on all changes made to any database. This information broadly consists of:
* Before images of updated or deleted rows. These are necessary for rolling
back uncommitted transactions, should it be required (undo).
* The changes made to database objects. Recording them makes it possible to
redo committed transactions after a system crash if the new data had not
been written to the database prior the crash.
The transaction log resides in the II_LOG_FILE/ingres/log directory, where
II_LOG_FILE is an Ingres environment variable. The name of the log file is
ingres_log.
Express Install creates a log file of the minimum possible size, 16 Mb. Such
a log file may not be large enough even in a development system. If you have
free disk space and choose manual install (in which case you can specify the
size of the log), set it to something much larger.
Both the location and the size of the log file can be changed at any time
after installation. The method of doing this is described in the System
Reference Guide.
You also have to decide if you want dual logging (mirroring the transaction
log). If the log gets corrupted for any reason, Ingres stops and you have to
recover your databases from backup. Therefore, in a live system, it is almost
compulsory either to have some type of RAID protection of the log or to have
it mirrored by Ingres. If you use dual logging, the copy of the log file can
be found under II_DUAL_LOG/ingres/log. Its name is dual_log.
In a development or test environment, mirroring the log is not always
necessary.
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4.3. Database Locations
There can be any number of databases in an Ingres installation. A database,
on the other hand, consists of files of different types. These are:
* Control file: it stores certain basic information about the database. You
can see this information with the infodb command after you have completed
the installation.
* Data files: every system table, user table, and also every index goes in
a separate file.
* Checkpoint files: checkpoint is the term Ingres uses for a database
backup. A backup can consist of more than file.
* Dump files: online backups are possible in Ingres, that is, the database
may be in use while the backup program is running. For this reason, the
database may change while it is being checkpointed. Ingres, so that it
can restore the database to the state it was in at the beginning of the
backup, saves the before images of those data blocks (pages) that have
changed during the backup process. These pages are saved in the dump
files.
* Journal files: from time to time, Ingres writes the records of committed
transactions from the log file to journal files (at least, this is the
default behavior: journalling may be set off at the database or table
level). The frequency of the journalling activity is a tunable function
of the amount of information that is written to the transaction log.
Journalling protects the installation against media failures: if the disk
containing the database crashes, you can restore the last (just before
the failure occurred) committed state of the database using a backup
(checkpoint) of the database and the journals created after that
checkpoint was taken. If you lose the log disk, you can restore the last
committed state the database was in at the time the last journal file was
written.
* Work files: Ingres, if it needs to sort large volumes of data, creates
temporary files on disk.
The files constituting a database reside in different directories, according
to their types. These directories are specified indirectly, by means of
Ingres locations.
There are five location types:
* Data location: place for data files of a database. A database can have
more than one data location (adding data locations to a database is
called extending the database). However, every database has a primary
data location. The system tables and the control file always reside in
the primary location. When creating a table, if you do not specify the
location(s) to put it in, it will be placed in the primary data location
of the database.
* Checkpoint location: by default, backups are created here. Not
necessarily, however: the ckpdb command allows you to specify an
arbitrary place for the backup, this way you can checkpoint a database
directly to tape as well.
* Dump location: for dump files.
* Journal location: this is where the journal files for a database reside.
* Work location: Ingres creates temporary sort files in this location. Just
like with data locations, a database may have more than one work
location. If this is the case, Ingres, by default, uses all of them for
each sort operation.
Let us see how these locations work in practice. Say we have a database,
called test, with the following locations:
* DATALOC1: data location --> /opt
* CKPLOC: checkpoint location --> /opt
* DMPLOC: dump location --> /opt
* JRNLLOC: journal location --> /opt
* WORKLOC1: work location --> /opt
Every location of the test database points to the /opt directory. Elements of
the database go in these directories:
* data files: /opt/ingres/data/default/test
* checkpoint files: /opt/ingres/ckp/default/test
* dump files: /opt/ingres/dmp/default/test
* journal files: /opt/ingres/jnl/default/test
* temporary files: /opt/ingres/work/default/test
Let us suppose now, that we extend the database to the following locations:
* DATALOC2: data location --> /opt
* DATALOC3: data location --> /disk2
* WORKLOC2: work location --> /disk2
The database is effectively extended to the following directories:
* data files: /disk2/ingres/data/default/test
* temporary files: /disk2/ingres/work/default/test
DATALOC2 points to /opt, just like DATALOC1. Tables to be created in location
DATALOC2 will go to /opt/ingres/data/default/test, the same directory where
tables created in location DATALOC1 reside.
As is apparent from the example, we could have created just one location for
DATALOC1, DATALOC2, CKPLOC, DMPLOC, JRNLLOC, and WORKLOC1.
Summarizing the main points about locations:
* Every location points to the root of a directory tree.
* More than one location can point to the same directory.
* A location can be used for storing different types of files.
* Databases can share locations. You can see from the example why this is
true: the name of the database becomes part of the directory tree, hence
files of different databases never mix.
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4.4. The iidbdb Database
Every Ingres installation has a master database called iidbdb. Ingres stores
information about users, locations and user databases in this database.
iidbdb is created by the installer.
You have to set the locations for iidbdb during installation. These locations
are stored in the following Ingres environment variables:
* II_DATABASE: data location
* II_CHECKPOINT: checkpoint location
* II_DUMP: dump location
* II_JOURNAL: journal location
* II_WORK: work location
These variables determine the default locations for every user database as
well, if you do not override them when creating those databases. See Creating
and Destroying Databases for more information.
Warning Changing the value of II_DATABASE, II_CHECKPOINT, II_DUMP,
II_JOURNAL, or II_WORK requires a complete re-install of Ingres.
Let us see these variables one by one.
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4.5. II_DATABASE
II_DATABASE determines the data location of iidbdb. Its default value is
$II_SYSTEM (in case of a manual install you can enter a different value for
II_DATABASE, while Express Install inevitably sets it to $II_SYSTEM).
The size of iidbdb after the installation is somewhat more than 5 Mb. It can
only grow significantly if you create hundreds of Ingres users, databases or
locations.
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4.6. II_CHECKPOINT
II_CHECKPOINT contains the value for the checkpoint location of iidbdb. By
default, it is also set to $II_SYSTEM.
The size of a checkpoint is just about the same as that of the database
itself (at least until you modify the template file of the checkpoint
program: it is possible, as you will see in Backup and Recovery). The
installer takes the first checkpoint of iidbdb.
If you plan to place checkpoints of user databases under II_CHECKPOINT then
you have to provide for more space here.
A further factor that must be taken into account is how long you want to keep
backups. When starting the checkpoint program, you can request the deletion
of older backups if you do not have too much free space.
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4.7. II_DUMP
II_DUMP determines the dump location of the iidbdb database. By default, its
value equals to that of II_CHECKPOINT.
By the end of the installation process, II_DUMP will contain a very small
amount of data. If you always create checkpoints off-line then you will not
need much space here.
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4.8. II_JOURNAL
II_JOURNAL contains the value for the journal location of the iidbdb
database. Its default value is the same as II_CHECKPOINT's.
The first checkpoint, taken by the installer causes the first, small journal
file to appear here. If you do not use different journal locations for user
databases then the necessary amount of free space under II_JOURNAL depends on
three factors:
* Whether you want Ingres to journal at all. If you take checkpoints of
your databases regularly and do not mind losing the changes you have made
to them since the latest checkpoint, you may switch off journalling.
Naturally, running a live system without journalling is usually not
acceptable.
* If journalling is switched on, then the growth rate of the journal area
is determined by the volume of changes made to the databases. Frequent,
large updates require quite a bit of space under II_JOURNAL.
* The third factor is, how long you wish to keep old journal files. If,
when taking a checkpoint, you instruct ckpdb to delete the old
checkpoints, then previous journal files will be removed as well.
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4.9. II_WORK
II_WORK determines the work location of the iidbdb database. It also defaults
to II_CHECKPOINT.
The problem of sizing the work location only arises if II_WORK serves as a
work location for user databases as well. It is next to impossible to
estimate the temporary disk space that will be needed here; however, having
the size of the largest table multiplied by three should work as a starting
point.
Remember that a database can have more than one work location. If the
original location turns out too small, you can always extend the database to
further work locations.
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4.10. Other Ingres Environment Variables
Besides the Ingres environment variables that determine locations there are a
couple more that you have to set during installation (or have Express Install
set them to their default value). These are:
* II_INSTALLATION: a two-character code, identifying the installation.
Every Ingres installation on a machine must have its own, unique,
installation code. The default value for II_INSTALLATION is II. Once set,
it cannot be changed.
* II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS: number of processors in the machine. By default, it
is 1. If you set it to a higher value, Ingres will use spin-locks when
accessing the database cache. If you do not know what spin-locks are, do
not bother. The point is to set II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS to 2 if you have a
multiprocessor machine. Its value can be changed at any time later.
* II_CHARSET: this variable determines the code set of all character data
stored in all databases you will create in the installation. Its default
value is ISO88591. Perhaps it is not surprising that changing it to a
different value after installation may corrupt data stored in your
existing databases. Since the iidbdb database is created by the installer
program, you should not choose Express Install if ISO88591 does not suit
you.
* II_TIMEZONE_NAME: name of the time zone, by default NA-PACIFIC. During
manual install you can select its value from a list of valid codes.
Ingres stores all date and time values in GMT and adjusts them according
to II_TIMEZONE_NAME when communicating with the client. Therefore, if you
set II_TIMEZONE_NAME to a different value, you will see all date-time
values in the databases change. For this reason, set this variable to its
final value before creating the first user database.
The (manual) installer prompts you for the value of two further parameters
which are not Ingres environment variables:
* Expected number of concurrent users in the system: this is 32 by default.
Based on this number, the installer sets the value of a number of other
parameters, such as the size of the database cache. These derived
parameters can later be adjusted.
* SQL-92 compatible databases: by default, Ingres databases differ from the
SQL-92 standard in some ways. For example, object names not protected by
single or double quotes are converted to lower case rather than upper
case. You can find the other differences in the SQL Reference Guide.
After you have made up your mind on the values of all installation
parameters, you know whether the default values for those variables that
cannot be changed after installation are acceptable to you. If they are, you
can choose Express Install.
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5. The Installation Process
In this section, the actual installation of Ingres takes place.
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5.1. Starting the Installation Program
In the following I will presume that you install directly from the CD which
is mounted under /cdrom. Depending on whether you install the SDK or the full
version of Ingres, you have to start the installation differently.
For the SDK:
1. Log in as ingres.
2. cd to $II_SYSTEM/ingres if it is not your home directory.
3. Unpack the install subdirectory from the tar file.
4. Start the ingbuild program.
$ cd $II_SYSTEM/ingres
$ tar xf /cdrom/int_lnx/ingres.tar install
$ install/ingbuild
For the full version:
1. Log in as root.
2. Start the installer.
# /cdrom/install.sh
In this latter case, you have to let the installer know the owner of the
installation (ingres), and the value of II_SYSTEM. After that, install.sh
starts ingbuild for you.
From this point on, the installation process is the same for both options.
On the starting screen of ingbuild you have to specify the path to the tar
file and select the type of install: Custom or Package. I suggest you go for
Custom Install to be able to choose exactly those elements you want to
install.
After choosing Custom Install, a table on the next screen shows all
components of your Ingres version together with their respective sizes.
Because of common parts in different components, the sizes added up indicate
much more disk space than is really needed for the installation.
By default every component is set to be installed. If you want to exclude
some of them, write "No" in their "Install?" field.
You had previously decided if the default values for the "stable" Ingres
environment variables were acceptable for your installation. If this is the
case, you can choose Express Install here. Remember that you can alter the
value of II_LOG_FILE as well as the size of the transaction log at any time
later.
Tip If this is your first Ingres install, you have the necessary space under
$II_SYSTEM/ingres and the "stable" parameters' default values are OK, I
suggest you choose Express Install.
Therefore, let us see this option first.
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5.2. Express Install
In the case of Express Install, the installer executes the following tasks:
* It untars all chosen components from the ingres.tar file to the
$II_SYSTEM/ingres/install/tmp directory.
* Checks the integrity of the components.
* Puts the components in appropriate subdirectories under $II_SYSTEM/
ingres.
* Sets the Ingres environment variables to their default values.
* Starts Ingres.
* Creates the iidbdb database.
* Takes a checkpoint of iidbdb.
* Stops Ingres.
* Sets up those components that require this (ABF, Enhanced Security, etc).
If the installation process went OK, the program tells you that every
installed component is ready to use. In the table on the screen the "Install?
" column shows "Ready" for every selected component.
Ingres is installed on your machine. Jump to Completing the Initial
Configuration.
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5.3. Manual Install
If you choose Install rather than Express Install, the installer untars
ingres.tar, checks the integrity of the components and puts them in their
respective directories. Then it asks you if you want to setup these
components now.
If you decide to do the setup later, the installer stops. In the table
containing the components the "Install?" column shows "Not Set Up" for every
selected component. You can run ingbuild again at any time and choose one of
the options Setup All or Setup to set up all or one of the components. A
component cannot be used until it has been set up.
Let us see what happens if you choose to set up the components.
First, you have to set up the DBMS server. On the screens to follow you will
see a fair amount of explanatory text about the parameters we have covered
earlier.
During the setup phase, the installer prompts you for the values of the
Ingres environment variables and the other necessary parameters:
* II_INSTALLATION.
* II_DATABASE.
* II_CHECKPOINT: if you set it to the same value as II_DATABASE, the
installer warns you of the dangers of losing a database and its backup at
the same time. You have to repeat II_CHECKPOINT's value for the program
to accept it.
* II_JOURNAL.
* II_DUMP.
* II_WORK.
* II_LOG_FILE: the installer reminds you of Ingres' capability of mirroring
the transaction log. Naturally, it only makes sense if the mirrored log
file is on a different disk than the primary log file. The installer asks
you if you want to disable dual logging. Then you have to specify the
size of the log (16 Mb by default, make it bigger if you have free disk
space as I suggested earlier). After this you have to tell the installer
where to put the primary log file, and, if you did not switch off dual
logging, the dual log file (II_DUAL_LOG).
* II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS.
* II_TIMEZONE_NAME.
* II_CHARSET.
* Expected number of concurrent users.
* SQL-92 compatible databases.
At every prompt, enter the appropriate parameter's previously decided value.
The installer may also ask you about other components you have chosen to
install. Accept the defaults for these.
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| Full Version |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| If you requested the installation of Net, make ingbuild set it up. Do not |
| bother setting an installation password, unless you know what it is: we |
| will complete Net's configuration later, in its own section (Ingres/Net). |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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5.4. Completing the Initial Configuration
After an Express Install (but perhaps after a manual install as well), you
may want to change the values of some of the Ingres environment variables.
You will see how to do this here. Stay logged in as ingres.
You can view the current values of Ingres environment variables with the
ingprenv command:
$ ingprenv
You can change the value of any variable with the ingsetenv command:
$ ingsetenv II_TIMEZONE_NAME GMT1
In the example we set II_TIMEZONE_NAME to GMT1 (Greenwich Mean Time + 1
hour), which happens to be the time zone Hungary is placed in. You can find
all possible values for II_TIMEZONE_NAME in the file $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/
tz.crs (look for the lists beginning with the word VALID).
You can change the value of any other Ingres environment variable in a
similar way. ingprenv and ingsetenv do not require a running Ingres server.
The System Reference Guide contains the description of every Ingres
environment variable. Let me mention two of those that we have not covered
yet.
II_DATE_FORMAT determines the display format of dates. By default, its value
is US which provides the format dd-mmm-yy.
Note The setting of II_DATE_FORMAT has no effect on the way dates are stored
in the database. Ingres always stores full date values, century
included. Hence, you can change the setting of II_DATE_FORMAT without
the risk of corrupting data. In order to avoid Y2K problems in your
applications, you should use a date format that contains the century,
such as MULTINATIONAL4 (dd/mm/yyyy) or FINLAND (yyyy-mm-dd). The latter
seems especially proper under Linux :-)
Another Ingres environment variable that has a good chance to be changed from
its default value is II_MONEY_FORMAT. This one is responsible for how values
of money type are displayed.
Note Just like with dates, the value of II_MONEY_FORMAT has no impact on the
storage format of money columns.
II_MONEY_FORMAT consists of two parts: the first part tells whether the
currency sign precedes the amount (L = Leading or T = Trailing), the second
part describes the currency itself ($, DM, Ft, etc.: this part is a string of
maximum 4 characters). The two parts are separated by a colon.
II_MONEY_FORMAT defaults to L:$.
Only the ingres user is allowed to use ingsetenv, since these Ingres
environment variables apply to the whole installation. However, some Ingres
environment variables (including II_DATE_FORMAT and II_MONEY_FORMAT) can be
overridden in the users' shell, via Linux variables of the same name. You can
check the System Reference Guide about which other variables fall into this
category.
Warning Be careful: Ingres will not prevent you from changing the value of
any Ingres environment variable, including II_DATABASE,
II_CHECKPOINT, II_CHARSET, etc. (the "stable" parameters as we saw
earlier). However, if you change one of these, prepare for the
nastiest possible consequences, the mildest one of which is that
Ingres will not run.
You can find information on how to setup Net and ICE in separate sections (
Ingres/Net, and ICE, respectively).
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5.5. Re-installation
If you want to re-install Ingres for any reason, remember to do the following
first:
* Backup everything you need from $II_SYSTEM/ingres (user databases, source
code of applications stored there, etc.). Also backup any other databases
you want to keep that are stored in different locations. You can use the
unloaddb utility for creating portable copies of databases. On unloaddb
see the System Reference Guide.
* Stop Ingres.
* Remove everything under $II_SYSTEM/ingres. Also remove the contents of
every other location where you stored any part of any database.
Warning Databases that are not completely removed can cause problems when you
try to re-create them.
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5.6. Command Line Install (SDK)
For installing the SDK, you can run ingbuild in batch mode as well. The
easiest way to do an Express Install is to start ingbuild in the following
way (logged in as ingres):
$ cd $II_SYSTEM/ingres
$ tar xf /cdrom/int_lnx/ingres.tar install
$ install/ingbuild -express /cdrom/int_lnx/ingres.tar
In this case a regular Express Install takes place without having to press
another key.
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5.7. Client Installation (Full Version)
If you have the full Ingres version, you may want to set up a client
installation. If your application will run on a different machine than the
database server, all you need on the application server is a client Ingres
installation.
For a client install, choose PackageInstall in ingbuild, then mark "Ingres
Networked Client" to be installed. After the installation has been finished,
go to section Ingres/Net to set up Net.
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5.8. The Installer's Log
No matter which type of install you have chosen (Express or Manual), you can
find all of ingbuild's messages in $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/install.log. I
suggest you check this file after an Express Install to see what happened
during the installation process. On the other hand, if ingbuild stops with an
error message, also check this log for possible clues to the cause of the
error.
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5.9. Checking the Installation
After you have installed and configured Ingres, it is time to check if it
works properly. Supposing you are still logged in as ingres, start the Ingres
system:
$ ingstart
Create a new database:
$ createdb test
Start the command line SQL interface:
$ sql test
Create a table, insert a row into it and query the table's contents:
create table t1 (col1 char(10));
insert into t1 values ('abcde');
select * from t1;
\g
If everything went OK, you should see something like the following:
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|$ sql test |
|INGRES TERMINAL MONITOR Copyright (c) 1981, 1998 Computer Associates Intl, Inc. |
|Ingres Linux Version II 2.0/9808 (lnx.us5/95)libc6 login |
|Sun Oct 3 03:43:54 1999 |
| |
|continue |
|* create table t1 (col1 char(10)); |
|* insert into t1 values ('abcde'); |
|* select * from t1; |
|* \g |
|Executing . . . |
| |
|(1 row) |
| |
| |
|col1 |
| |
|abcde |
| |
|(1 row) |
|continue |
|* |
| |
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You can leave sql with the command \q.
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6. Basic System and Database Administration
In this section I outline some of the basic tasks of the Ingres system
administrator and the Ingres database administrator. You will also see what
tools Ingres provides to perform these tasks. In the following I suppose you
are logged in as ingres.
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6.1. Starting and Stopping Ingres
You have already seen how to start Ingres:
$ ingstart
To stop Ingres, use the ingstop command:
$ ingstop
ingstop only stops Ingres if the are no active user sessions. If you want to
stop the system regardless of user sessions, use the following form:
$ ingstop -force
In this case, after you have killed Ingres, check if it released all shared
memory segments and semaphores it had used:
$ ipcs -a
If you see shared memory segments or semaphores in ipcs's output that are
still attached to the ingres user, release them with Ingres' ipcclean
utility:
$ ipcclean
Warning Take care: forcing Ingres to stop might make your databases
inconsistent.
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6.2. New Ingres Users and Locations
In order for any user to have access to the Ingres installation, you have to
define them as Ingres users with the accessdb utility.
Start accessdb:
$ accessdb
Select the Users option, then Create.
Here, enter the name of the user. You do not have to modify permissions.
Save, then End, and End.
You can also use accessdb to create new locations, change their types or
extend databases to new locations. The usage of accessdb is covered in the
System Reference Guide and in the Database Administrator's Guide.
As an alternative to accessdb, you can maintain users and locations by
running SQL commands on iidbdb (create user, create location, etc.). The
syntax of these commands can be found in the SQL Reference Guide.
Warning Since the ingres user has unlimited power of changing and possibly
destroying any element of an Ingres installation, it is highly
advisable that you only use this account for carrying out
administrative tasks. Create another Linux user and set its
environment to that of ingres. Register it as an Ingres user via
accessdb and use this account for everyday work.
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6.3. Creating and Destroying Databases
In subsection Checking the Installation you created a new database. You did
not specify any options in the
$ createdb test
command. Therefore the values stored in II_DATABASE, II_CHECKPOINT, etc.,
became locations for the test database. You could have specified each
location explicitly:
$ createdb test -d<data location> -c<checkpoint location> -j<journal location>
-b<dump location> -w<work location>
You can remove a database with the destroydb command:
$ destroydb test
Warning Be careful, because Ingres will not prompt you before destroying the
database.
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6.4. Collation Sequences
The collation sequence determines which of any two character strings should
be considered less than the other. In Ingres, every database can have its own
sort order. You can specify the collation sequence when creating the
database:
createdb test -lhun
If you omit the -l parameter, the database will have the default collation
sequence which is determined by the implicit sort order of the code set of
the Ingres installation (II_CHARSET).
If you want to use your own collation sequence (it is hun in the example
above), you have to create a definition file first. The structure of this
file must obey to simple rules by which you specify the absolute or relative
ordering of letters and/or strings in your language. This file must then be
compiled by the aducompile utility for Ingres to be able to use it.
The Spanish collation sequence and the collation based on the DEC
Multinational Character Set are available both in source (spanish.dsc and
multi.dsc), and compiled form (spanish and multi).
You specify these collation sequences in the following way:
createdb test -lspanish
or
createdb test -lmulti
The compiled definition files for a collation sequence must be in the
$II_SYSTEM/ingres/file/collation directory. The syntax rules of the
definition files can be found in the System Reference Guide. It may also be
useful to examine the definition files for the Spanish and the DEC
Multinational collations.
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6.5. Backup and Recovery
You can back up an Ingres database or certain tables in it with the ckpdb
utility. The following command backs up the test database:
$ ckpdb test
Note Checkpoints can be taken online.
Restoring a database can be done with the rollforwarddb command:
$ rollforwarddb test
By default, rollforwarddb, using the latest checkpoint and all journal files
created since that checkpoint, restores the database to its last committed
state. However, you can specify a point in time to restore the database to
the state it was in at that time. You can go back as far as 16 checkpoints (
Ingres stores data for the last 16 checkpoints in the control file of the
database).
Both ckpdb and rollforwarddb accept many parameters. You can read more about
these commands in the System Reference Guide. Besides, you should read
Michael Leo's paper on Ingres backup and recovery at [http://www.naiua.org/
papers/backup99.zip] http://www.naiua.org/papers/backup99.zip.
Both ckpdb and rollforwarddb use a template file ($II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/
cktmpl.def). By modifying this file, you can customize the Linux commands
that do the physical backup and restore of the data files. Consult the
Database Administrator's Guide for the syntax of this file.
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6.6. Configuring Ingres
Most Ingres parameters can be set via the cbf utility. This is the program by
which you can specify the number of DBMS servers, the sizes of different
caches and a lot of other variables. The usage of cbf is detailed in the
System Reference Guide.
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6.7. Monitoring Ingres
You can use the ipm utility to monitor a running Ingres system (Visual DBA
only runs on Win32). With ipm, you can monitor and manage user sessions, and
also the locking and logging subsystems.
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6.8. Message Files
The Ingres message files reside in the $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files directory. The
most important of these is errlog.log. Should any problems arise during the
running of Ingres, this is the file to check first.
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7. Ingres/Net
Ingres/Net is not part of the SDK. You only get it with the full version of
Ingres. It allows applications (Ingres utilities and user programs alike) to
access Ingres databases on other installations (usually on different machines
as well). On the machine where the application runs, a client Ingres
installation must be set up. We covered the installation of the client in
subsection Client Installation. (Naturally, the client can also be a full
Ingres installation.)
In this section you will see how to set up Net on both the client and server
to provide remote access to the DBMS server. For a complete description of
Ingres/Net I suggest you consult the Ingres/Net User Guide.
Before starting with Net, however, we need some information on how Ingres
authenticates its users.
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7.1. User Authentication
We saw earlier that only valid Ingres users can access an Ingres
installation. Ingres keeps information on its users in the iidbdb database.
But how does Ingres authenticate users?
In case of local access, the answer is simple: Ingres asks the operating
system who the user is.
There is an exception to this rule: certain users may be granted the
privilige to impersonate other Ingres users when starting an Ingres utility
or application. That is why it is not necessary for every Ingres user to have
an OS account. This privilege, however, can only be granted as all-or-none:
if you give it to somebody, he/she will be able to impersonate any other
Ingres user, including the ingres account. Therefore, never grant it to
anyone.
Leaving the authentication of users to the operating system works fine for
local access. But what about users who want to use the database from a remote
machine? They do not log in to the machine the database resides on (the
server), therefore the server's operating system will not authenticate them
(they may not even have an OS account on the server machine).
There are two possible ways Ingres can authenticate these users. We will
cover them in the next two subsections.
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7.2. Login Account Passwords
The first solution to the remote user authentication problem is to require
that the client provides a local (to the server machine) user name and
password. Then the Ingres server authenticates these through standard OS
facilities, just like the operating system would do with real local accounts.
In this case, you do not have to set anything in Net on the server. The only
thing you will need is the ingvalidpw Ingres utility. It will check (by using
the getspnam and crypt OS functions) if the user's name and password are
valid on the server machine. On how to install ingvalidpw, see subsection
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7.3. Installation Passwords
The other way of authenticating remote users is that the server accepts their
user ID on the client machine. In this case, the remote users do not have to
be known to the OS on the server.
How will the server validate clients in this case? It is obvious that we need
some kind of authentication: anybody can create an ingres account on a client
machine, then he/she could connect to the installation as the ingres
super-user.
This is where the installation password comes in: you set an installation
password on the server. You then set this password on the client machines for
those accounts that you want to allow to access the server under their name
on the client.
The Ingres server can then authenticate the client by simply checking its
installation password.
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7.4. ingvalidpw
As ingbuild apparently does not bother installing ingvalidpw, you have to
build it yourself.
Login as root, set the environment as that of ingres, then simply type
# mkvalidpw
This script builds and installs ingvalidpw.
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7.5. Setting up the Client
You will use the netutil utility to set up Net on the client side, and, in
the case of installation passwords, also on the server. Let us see the client
side first. Log in as the account you want to grant access to, or ingres, if
you want to set up general access. Then type:
$ netutil
You can see three tables on netutil's screen. Let us see what fields each of
them contains:
* Virtual Node Name: this is the name by which you identify the remote
Ingres installation, similarly as you would define an ODBC data source
name. The name is of local scope and has nothing to do either with the
server machine's name or the remote installation's code.
* Login/Password Data: one or two entries of the following:
+ Type: can be Global, or Private. If Private, the entry will only
pertain to the current account. If Global, it will be used for all
users on the client machine, except for those with a Private entry.
+ Login: the user account on the server machine. In case of an
installation password, it should be *.
+ Password: the password on the server machine (the above user's
password, or the installation password).
* Connection Data: at least one entry of the following:
+ Type: can be Global, or Private. The same applies as in Login/
Password Data.
+ Network Address: the server machine's address.
+ Protocol: the network protocol. On Linux, it is probably tcp_ip.
+ Listen Address: listen address of the communication server as set up
by cbf. By default, it is the same as the installation code.
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7.6. Setting up the Server
If you want to use an installation password, you have to configure Net on the
server, too. In netutil, create a virtual node with the following data:
* Virtual Node Name: must be the machine's name.
* Login/Password Data
+ Type: Global.
+ Login: *.
+ Password: enter the installation password.
* Connection Data: you do not have to enter any data here.
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7.7. Using Net
After you have configured Net with netutil on the client, and, if necessary,
on the server, use netutil's Test menu option to see if the connection works.
If it does, you can access a remote database in the following manner (let us
suppose the name of the database is test, the virtual node name for the
remote Ingres installation is ingserv1):
$ sql ingserv1::test
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8. ICE (Internet Commerce Enabled)
ICE is Ingres' proprietary gateway to the Web. Basically, it is a CGI program
that can talk to an Ingres server through the native Ingres API. ICE supports
a couple of macro commands which you can embed in HTML documents. When
rendering such a document, ICE first executes the macros then outputs the
resulting web page.
On other platforms you can configure ICE as a server extension to the
Spyglass web server which is bundled with Ingres. The Linux version of Ingres
does not include Spyglass. Therefore, in this section I will show you how to
setup ICE as a standalone CGI program under Apache, the world's most popular
web server.
You need the ingvalidpw program for ICE to work. See subsection ingvalidpw on
how to install it.
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8.1. Configuring Apache
Building, installing and configuring Apache is beyond the scope of this
HOWTO. (You had better learn Apache if you are putting your databases on the
Web, with ICE or otherwise.)
I suggest to download the newest stable version of Apache in source and build
it yourself for maximum flexibility. I also suggest you keep a separate
Apache installation just for ICE.
In this subsection I will only cover those parameters of Apache that are
important from ICE's point of view.
Things to watch out for:
* The installed software should be owned by the ingres user. This is not
strictly necessary but will make things easier.
* Compile the mod_env module into the server, preferably statically (do not
use DSOs unless you have to: they make Apache slower).
After you have compiled and installed Apache, set the following parameters in
httpd.conf:
Port 8000 -- must be greater than 1023
User ingres -- all server processes run as ingres
Group ingres -- the ingres user's group
PassEnv II_SYSTEM
PassEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
The last two lines must be added to httpd.conf. These variables will be
passed from the environment of the ingres user to the environment of CGI
programs started by Apache (specifically iceinst and ice, the two executables
of ICE).
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8.2. ICE Setup
Now you can configure ICE and its Tutorials. You can do this with a browser
and the iceinst program. Let us suppose that your CGI directory is /opt/
ingres/apache/cgi-bin and Apache is listening on port 8000. Let the name of
your machine be ingserv1. Then you can start iceinst in the following manner:
$ iceinst -d/opt/ingres/apache/cgi-bin -u/cgi-bin -shttp://ingserv1:8000
-b/opt/netscape/netscape
Option -d is the full path to the CGI directory, -u is this directory's
address within the site, -s is the Internet address of the server, while -b
is the full path to the browser. If you omit option -b and write -remote
instead, then iceinst will not try to start the browser. You can configure
ICE from another machine then, directing your browser to [http://ingserv1/
cgi-bin/iceinst] http://ingserv1/cgi-bin/iceinst.
First the program asks for the value of II_SYSTEM. Then you should visit
every screen and set all parameters presented on them. Have iceinst install
the Dynamic SQL Tutorial and the Macro Processor Tutorial as well. These show
the usage of ICE via applications and a database (icedb by default).
It is important to create a directory under Apache's DocumentRoot where ICE
can store the output it creates for clients' requests. ICE will not start
until you create this directory and specify its name in iceinst.
After you have completed every form, choose the Install option. If you have
set everything properly, the configuration of ICE and the installation of the
tutorials take place. ICE is ready to use.
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9. Miscellaneous Topics
Further hints to the use of Ingres.
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9.1. Automatic Startup and Shutdown
If you want Ingres to start automatically whenever Linux boots and stop when
you shutdown or reboot the system, do the following:
Log in as root.
Check if your Linux variant has System V or BSD style init (init's man page
will tell that).
If your system conforms to System V, the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory must
exist. Create a file there (call it ingres or any other name you wish). The
file should contain at least the following:
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
start)
echo "Starting Ingres"
su - ingres -c "ingstart"
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping Ingres"
su - ingres -c "ingstop"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: ingres {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Link the file as K01ingres to the directories that correspond to the run
levels in which Ingres should stop:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K01ingres
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K01ingres
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K01ingres
Also link it as S99ingres to the directories that correspond to the run
levels in which Ingres should start:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99ingres
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99ingres
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S99ingres
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ingres /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99ingres
It is not important to call the links K01ingres and S99ingres, the point is
that the name starting with K should contain a small number (so that Ingres
stops early when changing to a lower runlevel) and the name starting with S
should contain a large number (so that Ingres starts after everything else
has started). Naturally, the file names must not clash with names of existing
files.
If you have a BSD style init, put the following lines into /etc/rc.d/
rc.local:
echo "Starting Ingres"
su - ingres -c "ingstart"
This will start Ingres. (As a matter of fact, you can use /etc/rc.d/rc.local
even if you have a System V style init.)
To stop Ingres automatically, create a file in /etc/shutdown.d (call it, say,
ingres) that contains the commands:
echo "Stopping Ingres"
su - ingres -c "ingstop"
No matter which type your system is, the files you create must be executable
files, owned by root.
Naturally, if your system provides a utility for configuring programs to
start and stop automatically (such as chkconfig in RedHat), use that if you
wish.
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9.2. ingmenu
The easiest way to access an Ingres database (at least, for beginners) is via
the ingmenu program. From ingmenu, you can reach Ingres' forms-based
utilities, by which you can create, update and query tables, create, edit and
run reports and ABF or Vision applications. Its usage is:
$ ingmenu test
Test is the name of the database.
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9.3. Circumventing Ingres Net
Without Ingres/Net, in theory it is not possible for Ingres applications to
access databases on different machines. However, there exists a method, not
supported by CA, by which sometimes you can come around this problem.
Let us suppose your application runs on host ingdev and the database (called
test) you would like to update or query resides on host ingserv. Your first
task is to find out the port number of the appropriate DBMS server running on
ingserv. You can use ipm for this purpose: as ingres, start ipm on ingserv
and choose option Server List. In the list of servers select one that is of
type INGRES and handles the test database (you have to see either test or ALL
in column Connecting to Databases). You find the port number of the DBMS
server in the first column. Let us suppose it is 1259.
On machine ingdev, set the shell variable II_DBMS_SERVER in the following
way:
$ export II_DBMS_SERVER='ingserv::1259'
Now run the command:
$ sql test
If it works, you have access to the test database on host ingserv.
This solution is applicable only if both machines are of the same
architecture, the same operating system is running on both of them, the
character set is the same in both Ingres installations, and so on: I do not
know the full list of necessary conditions. Therefore, I cannot guarantee
that this trick will work.
On the other hand, if you restart Ingres on host ingserv, the DBMS server
process will get a different TCP/IP port, therefore you probably have to
automate the fetching of the current port number to the application server.
You can use the show command of the iinamu utility for this purpose. The
following command line gives the port number of the DBMS server if there is
only one server running:
$ echo show | iinamu | grep INGRES | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cut -f4
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9.4. Forms-Based Development Tools
The Ingres installation includes a sample application, created by ABF, the
traditional development tool of Ingres. You can load it with the abfdemo
command. Unfortunately, the manuals of ABF and Vision cannot be found either
on the Ingres CD or on the CA site.
There is a problem with the SDK under glibc 2.1: applications created by ABF
or Vision cannot be either compiled or run directly from the database. This
problem is solved in the full Ingres version. For the SDK, install the RedHat
glibc 2.0 compatibility packages. If you do not have RedHat, download them
from the following URLs:
* [ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
compat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpm] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/
redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
compat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpm
* [ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/
redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
* [ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/
redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm
* [ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
compat-libs-5.2-1.i386.rpm] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/
i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-libs-5.2-1.i386.rpm
Besides the compatibility packages, you need an Ingres patch. It was posted
on the Ingres newsgroup in September, 1999. I have a copy of it, email me if
you wish to install it.
The compatibility packages and the patch probably do not work for all Linux
distributions. I only tested them on RedHat and Caldera Open Linux.
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9.5. Ingperl and Perl DBI
Previous Perl versions, version 4 included, made Ingres access possible via
libraries known as ingperl. You can find information on ingperl at [http://
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~lfm/ingperl.html] http://
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~lfm/ingperl.html.
In Perl 5 a new, unified database interface, called Perl DBI, appeared. Its
site is [http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html] http://
www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html.
You can download the Ingres module of DBI from that site.
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9.6. Ingres links
I leave you with a few pointers to important Ingres sites:
* [http://www.cai.com/ingres/] http://www.cai.com/ingres/: home page of the
Ingres RDBMS on CA's site.
* [http://support.cai.com/ingressupp.html] http://support.cai.com/
ingressupp.html: Ingres Technical Support.
* [http://www.cai.com/ingres/inquire/] http://www.cai.com/ingres/inquire/:
inquire_ingres: Ingres technical magazine.
* [http://www.naiua.org/faqs.html] http://www.naiua.org: the North American
Ingres Users Association's site. Check the FAQ page, and the /papers
directory.
* [news:comp.databases.ingres] news:comp.databases.ingres: the Ingres
newsgroup.
* [http://www.deja.com/group/comp.databases.ingres] http://www.deja.com/
group/comp.databases.ingres: the archived Ingres newsgroup on Deja.
* [http://munkora.cs.mu.oz.au/~yuan/Ingres/ingres.html] http://
munkora.cs.mu.oz.au/~yuan/Ingres/ingres.html: William Yuan's Ingres
Reference Page with lots of Ingres information.
* [http://www.mercurie.co.uk/ingres/] http://www.mercurie.co.uk/ingres/:
Prijesh Patel's Unofficial Ingres Web Page with edited posts from the
Ingres newsgroup.
* [http://www.palslib.com/Ingres_II/Ingres_II.html] http://www.palslib.com/
Ingres_II/Ingres_II.html: the Ingres section of Pal's Linux RDBMS
Library.
Have fun!