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<div class="section" id="global-database-settings">
<span id="server-database"></span><h1>Global Database Settings<a class="headerlink" href="#global-database-settings" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p class="versionadded">
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 1.3.0.</span></p>
<p>Several Bcfg2 plugins, including
<a class="reference internal" href="plugins/grouping/metadata.html#server-plugins-grouping-metadata"><em>Metadata</em></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="plugins/probes/index.html#server-plugins-probes-index"><em>Probes</em></a>, and
<a class="reference internal" href="plugins/statistics/reporting.html#server-plugins-statistics-reporting"><em>Reporting</em></a>, can connect use a
relational database to store data. They use the global database
settings in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bcfg2.conf</span></tt>, described in this document, to connect.</p>
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Although SQLite is supported as a database, it may cause
significant thread contention (and a performance penalty) if you
use SQLite with <a class="reference internal" href="plugins/grouping/metadata.html#server-plugins-grouping-metadata"><em>Metadata</em></a> or
<a class="reference internal" href="plugins/probes/index.html#server-plugins-probes-index"><em>Probes</em></a>. If you are using the
database-backed features of either of those plugins, it’s
recommended that you use a higher performance database backend.</p>
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<h2>Configuration Options<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>All of the following options should go in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[database]</span></tt> section
of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/etc/bcfg2.conf</span></tt>.</p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Option name</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
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<tr class="row-even"><td>engine</td>
<td>The full name of the Django database backend to use. See
<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#engine">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#engine</a>
for available options</td>
<td>“django.db.backends.sqlite3”</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>name</td>
<td>The name of the database</td>
<td>“/var/lib/bcfg2/bcfg2.sqlite”</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>user</td>
<td>The user to connect to the database as</td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>password</td>
<td>The password to connect to the database with</td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>host</td>
<td>The host to connect to</td>
<td>“localhost”</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>port</td>
<td>The port to connect to</td>
<td>None</td>
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<div class="section" id="database-schema-sync">
<h2>Database Schema Sync<a class="headerlink" href="#database-schema-sync" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>After making changes to the configuration options or adding a plugin
that uses the global database, you should run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bcfg2-admin</span> <span class="pre">syncdb</span></tt>
to resync the database schema.</p>
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