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Global Database Settings

New in version 1.3.0.

Several Bcfg2 plugins, including Metadata, Probes, and Reporting, can connect use a relational database to store data. They use the global database settings in bcfg2.conf, described in this document, to connect.

Note

Although SQLite is supported as a database, it may cause significant thread contention (and a performance penalty) if you use SQLite with Metadata or Probes. If you are using the database-backed features of either of those plugins, it’s recommended that you use a higher performance database backend.

Configuration Options

All of the following options should go in the [database] section of /etc/bcfg2.conf.

Option name Description Default
engine The name of the Django database backend to use. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#engine for available options (note that django.db.backends is not included in the engine name) “sqlite3”
name The name of the database “/var/lib/bcfg2/bcfg2.sqlite”
user The user to connect to the database as None
password The password to connect to the database with None
host The host to connect to “localhost”
port The port to connect to None
options Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. The parameters are supplied as the value of the django OPTIONS setting. None

Database Schema Sync

After making changes to the configuration options or adding a plugin that uses the global database, you should run bcfg2-admin syncdb to resync the database schema.

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