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OpenText Core Analytics Database Settings Overview
This topic provides an overview of database configuration settings in OTCAD.
You can configure the default database configuration settings in OpenText™ Core Analytics Database (OTCAD).
- Log in to OTCAD.
- Select Settings from More options.
The Settings Overview page opens. In this page, you can configure the following OTCAD settings:
- Connection data: You can configure the default connection data settings in OTCAD.
- CIDR: CIDR is fundamental to subnetting, the process of dividing a large network into smaller, more manageable subnetworks. By using different prefix lengths, you can create subnets with varying numbers of host addresses, enabling efficient use of IP address space.
- Scaling: Database scaling is the ability of a database to obtain or reduce resources depending on the system's load, establishing a direct correlation between the allocation of resources and their demand. Scaling ensures consistency in the database server quality while maximizing resource usage.
- Select Connection Data.
- Copy this information to connect your database with other applications or clients:
- Host DNS: The DNS host provides the authoritative nameservers that answer or resolve queries for your website. This is how your site is found on the web.
- Host Port: The host port is a network port on a computer or device that is used to establish a connection with another device or service, often for communication or data transfer.
- Database Name: The unique name of the database.
- Refresh Token: The refresh token is a special type of token used in authentication flows, particularly in OAuth 2.0, to obtain new access tokens when the current ones expire.
- Access Token: An access token is a security credential that allows an application or user to access protected resources on a server. It acts as a digital key, verifying the user's or application's identity and authorization level, and is used to grant access without requiring the user to repeatedly provide their credentials.
- Select Close to close the Connection Details page.
1 - Connection Data Settings
This topic provides an overview of connection data settings in OTCAD.
You can configure the default connection data settings in OTCAD. You can manage IP addresses with Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) and scale your plan to suit your requirements.
2 - CIDR
This topic provides an overview of managing IP addresses with Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) in OTCAD.
CIDR
Cloud infrastructure engineers use CIDR notation to manage IP address ranges for cloud-based networks. IP addresses enable resources in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to communicate with each other and with resources over the Internet. CIDR notation is a way to represent an IP address and its network mask.
OpenText supports ranges of IP addresses using Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. For example, 192.168.1.0/24 represents all IPv4 addresses in the range of 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255.
The format of these addresses is as follows:
- An individual IPv4 address is 32 bits, with 4 groups of up to 3 decimal digits. For example, 10.0.1.0.
- An individual IPv6 address is 128 bits, with 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal digits. For example, 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334.
Public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
All subnets have an attribute that determines whether a network interface created in the subnet automatically receives a public IPv4 address. Therefore, when you launch an instance into a subnet that has this attribute enabled, a public IP address is assigned to the primary network interface that's created for the instance.
You can control whether your instance receives a public IP address by doing the following:
- Modifying the public IP addressing attribute of your subnet.
- Enabling or disabling the public IP addressing feature during instance launch, which overrides the subnet's public IP addressing attribute.
- Unassigning a public IP address from your instance after launch by managing the IP addresses associated with a network interface.
Public IPv6 addresses are IPv6 addresses that can be configured to remain private or configured to be reachable over the Internet.
Private IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
Private IPv4 addresses are not reachable over the Internet and can be used for communication between the instances in your VPC. When you launch an instance into a VPC, a primary private IP address from the IPv4 address range of the subnet is assigned to the primary network interface (for example, eth0) of the instance. Each instance is also given a private (internal) DNS hostname that resolves to the private IP address of the instance.
You cannot share private IPv6 addresses on the Internet. You can use a private IPv6 address if you want your private networks to support IPv6 and you have no intention of routing traffic from these addresses to the Internet. You can connect to the internet from a resource that has a private IPv6 address. But you must route traffic through a resource in another subnet with a public IPv6 address.
To configure CIDR settings:
- In the Settings Overview page, select View CIDR.
The CIDR page displays.
- Select Private.
- To add an IP address, select Add IP.
- From the Value drop-down list, select either IPv4 or IPv6 depending on the IP address you want to add.
Do one of the following:
a. Enter a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address.
b. Copy a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address from another source and select Paste.
- Select √.
3 - Connection Data Settings
This topic provides an overview of scaling your database in OTCAD.
Scaling
Workload scaling enhances application performance and resource efficiency in dynamic environments. Scaling ensures that applications can handle varying workloads without performance degradation. OpenText provides the ability to automatically scale resources up or down based on real-time metrics, allowing organizations to respond quickly to changes in traffic. This elasticity not only improves user experience but also optimizes resource utilization, helping to minimize costs associated with underused or overprovisioned resources.
You cam manage compute to your database to improve the performance of complex analytic queries that have been running for a long time. Adding compute helps these queries run faster.
Configure the compute of your database to suit your query requirements and workload performance needs.
To manage compute for your database:
- In the Settings Overview page, select Scaling.
- Select View Scaling.
The horizontal database scaling options are displayed. You can scale the database either manually or automatically. Do one of the following:
a. To manually scale the database, select Manual.
b. Slide across the slider horizontally to scale the database depending on the size - small, small-medium, medium, medium-large, or large.
c. Select Apply changes.
d. In the View scaling log area, click the Audit log and Scaling log tabs to view the log details.
<-Or->
a. To automatically scale the database, select Auto.
Select this option only if you need to automatically scale the database based on defined parameters.
b. From the Scale up to drop-down list, select either Large or Medium depending on the size of your database.
Note
Define the maximum compute beyond which the system cannot add anything and balance the loads automatically.
c. Use the CPU usage toggle button to scale out the database when the CPU usage exceeds a value in the range 1% to 100%.
d. Use the Memory usage toggle button to scale out the database when the memory usage exceeeds a value in the range 1% to 100%.
Note
When you apply both CPU usage and Memory usage, the system adds additional compute when either of the thresholds are reached.
e. Select Apply changes.
f. In the View scaling log area, click the Audit log and Scaling log tabs to view the log details.
The Audit log provides information about the following:
- Date & time
- Event
- Performed by
The Scaling log provides information about the following:
- Date & time
- Scale event
- Compute (units)
- Triggered
- Performed by