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Please ensure that the database user used to deploy Open Specimen has the following privileges. Failing to grant any of the mentioned privileges will result in deployment failure. The attribute username on this page defines the username of the database and not the login name used to log on to Open Specimen.

Table of Contents

MySQL

Port

Default port: 3306

If MySQL is on a different server then you also need to open the MySQL port for communicating with OpenSpecimen

Privileges

Either the user should be a MySQL root user or have the following privileges

  1. ALTER
  2. ALTER ROUTINE
  3. CREATE
  4. CREATE ROUTINE
  5. CREATE VIEW
  6. DELETE
  7. DROP
  8. EXECUTE
  9. INDEX
  10. INSERT
  11. LOCK TABLES
  12. SELECT
  13. TRIGGER
  14. UPDATE
  15. REFERENCES

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Please set the property default-storage-engine=INNODB. After the changes made, the Mysql server restart is needed.

This property is available in my.ini file in case of Windows and my.cnf in a the case of Linux.

Backup

In the case of an upgrade, take a manual backup of the database, this will create back up a backup dump on the database server machine.

Code Block
mysqldump -u [uname] -p[pass] --routines db_name > db_backup.sqlmysqldump -u<user> -p<password> --single-transaction --skip-lock-tables --routines database name | gzip > OPENSPECIMEN_`date +\%d-\%m-\%Y`.SQL.gz

Oracle

Port

Default port: 1521

If Oracle is on different serverservers, then you also need to open the Oracle port for communicating with OpenSpecimen.

Privileges

Either the user should be

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an Oracle sysdba user or have the following privileges

  1. CONNECT
  2. RESOURCE
  3. CREATE ANY TABLE
  4. DROP ANY TABLE
  5. CREATE ANY TRIGGER
  6. DROP ANY TRIGGER
  7. CREATE ANY VIEW
  8. DROP ANY VIEW
  9. CREATE ANY PROCEDURE
  10. DROP ANY PROCEDURE
  11. CREATE ANY SEQUENCE
  12. DROP ANY SEQUENCE

The use of ANY allows user to perform the operation in any schema. Droping ANY will restrict users to perform the aforementioned operations only within their own schema.

SQL:

GRANT CONNECT, RESOURCE, CREATE ANY TABLE, DROP ANY TABLE, CREATE ANY TRIGGER, DROP ANY TRIGGER, CREATE ANY VIEW, DROP ANY VIEW, CREATE ANY PROCEDURE, DROP ANY PROCEDURE, CREATE ANY SEQUENCE, DROP ANY SEQUENCE TO <USERNAME>

Note: If you are using the ORACLE database, it is mandatory to install the Oracle client on the machine that is hosting the Tomcat/JBoss server. Ensure that the system variable ORACLE_HOME is set properly and the system variable PATH contains ORACLE_HOME/bin.

Backup

In case of an upgrade, take the manual of the database backup, this will create a back up backup dump on the database server machine.

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  • Do not use root user for connection from OpenSpecimen. 
  • Create a separate user for the database for OpenSpecimen and provide the access to this database only. Use below command:

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