Sorry for the delayed response--was traveling today. DetailsDotAt wrote:
Even with BD7, when I setup datasources from within BD Administrator, it could only find ODBC data sources that were already setup from within Windows OS data sources.
Correct--you cannot configure ODBC datasources from within the administrator. And frankly if you can, you should be using JDBC anyway since it's going to perform much better.
Step 1 - Configure Datasource via Datasources.msc in Windows OS Step 2 - Go Into BD Admin - configure datasources
It's been a while since I implemented that in the administrator but I believe you will still need to put the password in the administrator since it won't read that from the ODBC datasource. I might have even put a comment to that effect on the datasource page in the admin--don't have a Windows machine handy at the moment so I can't confirm right now.
So.. now I don't need to do that?
Well, there is a checkbox to have it auto-configure ODBC datasource (other than the password). So if I'm understanding what you're asking, then yes, it will auto-detect ODBC datasources if you tell it to, and I believe that option is checked by default. (My apologies again for not having a Windows box handy to confirm.)
My question is because I am going to be deploying a vm using OpenBD as multiple instances. So there will be about 5 differnet virtual servers each running Windows 2003 Webserver, and they will all connect to the same database server.
Out of curiosity, in this setup what database server are you using that you'll be using an ODBC connection?
I was hoping that once I setup the first webserver, I can copy the entire Open BD folder and just re-use it on new instances. Preferably, I will have a copy of the vm after everything is configured, and each new instance won't need to copy the BD folder because it will already be on the copy of the VM, just need to change IP.
That should work fine. Particularly if you take ODBC out of the picture it would be dead simple since under the hood all the administrator is doing is modifying bluedragon.xml.
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