Modifying the Configuration Database › The Configuration Database

The Configuration Database

Information about your Console Manager environment and your serviced systems is stored in the configuration database. The configuration database containing a number of mandatory characteristics with predefined defaults is created when you install Console Manager. You may keep these characteristics, or change them to suit your own requirements using the configuration editor (see The Configuration Editor, later in this chapter).

The configuration database is a binary file stored as follows:

CONSOLE$DATA:CONSOLE_CFG.DAT

This file contains:

• Descriptions of serviced systems and physical connection details.
• A record of users and their Console Manager privileges.
• Information about the Event Notification Services (ENS) (if you are using ENS).

Note: You must use the configuration editor to edit this binary file; you cannot edit it directly. However, you can save the configuration database in a text file using the export feature (see Chapter 5, “Managing Console Manager”), and edit this text file.

For Console Manager to work, you must add information about the serviced systems being managed, and the users managing them, to the configuration database. If you are using the command line interface, see Using the Command Line Interface to the Configuration Database. If you are using the DECwindows Motif interface, see Using the DECwindows Motif Interface to the Configuration Database. Each of these sections contains information about:

• Setting default characteristics, under the Setting Console Manager Characteristics subsection
• Editing the configuration database, under the subsections, Modifying the Contents of the Configuration Database and Deleting From the Configuration Database.

You can edit the configuration database at any time while using Console Manager, but the information is not updated until you reconfigure the software. Further details on reconfiguring Console Manager can be found in the chapter Managing Console Manager.

Note: When you start the Console Manager software, the startup procedure verifies the configuration database. If any verification errors are found for a system, the Console Manager software will not start. You must fix these errors using the configuration editor.