System Configuration setup for HDM

Our next task is to enter the System Configuration module to set system parameters for the HDM SQL database.

  1. Click on the System Configuration icon and make sure the station to be used as IGSS server is selected (green computer screen icon).
  2. Go to the tab called Files and in the External database group, click the button SQL Settings….and the SQL Server Settings dialog box appears.
  3. Select Enable external DB for HDM database.
  4. In the field DSN, enter the name chosen in the ODBC DSN setup, in our scenario here HDM.
  5. In the field Computer name of server type in the name of the server where the SQL Express server is installed. In the field Database name type in the name of the SQL database, in our case HDM.
  6. Choose which type of authentication you’re using, either NT or the SQL database’s own. Fill in User name and Password as appropriate, if you have chosen SQL authentication.
  7. Click OK to complete.

This completes the final task for creating the HDM database on the SQL Express  server.