This chapter provides you with the configuration parameters and steps needed for configuring your database server by creating the Monitor database and configuring both the Monitor database and the Event Queue database (the IBM MQSeries Workflow or the IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow database).
The instructions in this chapter assume that you are creating the BI Monitor database for the first time. If you have an earlier version of BI Monitor and there is an existing Monitor database that already contains data stored in its tables, then you need to upgrade your database to adhere to the latest modification in the current version of BI Monitor 4.2.4 database, and migrate the stored data to the upgraded database. Refer to the chapter entitled: Upgrading your Existing Version of BI Monitor to the Recent Version for details about the database migration.
The sections below will guide you through creating and configuring the databases for IBM DB2® and Oracle database servers using all supported versions in Windows, AIX and Solaris platforms. Refer to the IBM DB2 and Oracle documentation for the required steps of creating and configuring the databases.
You can refer also to Appendix C of this guide for an example of the detailed steps of creating the Monitor database and configuring both the Monitor database and the Event Queue database using IBM DB2 7.2 with fixpack 5 on Windows platform.