Confirming Database Information

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Gather the following database information, which will be needed in an upcoming step:

  • Database name

  • Database user

  • Database user's password

The database name, database user, and database user's password are needed to allow both:

  • the Jamf Pro Apache Tomcat web application to connect to the MySQL database, and

  • the Jamf Pro Server Tools utility to connect to and manage the MySQL database

Note:

When using the Jamf Pro Server Tools CLI to set the values for these connections, a different command must be executed for each connection.

For an existing Jamf Pro installation, this information should already be set in the DataBase.xml file (for the connection between the Jamf Pro web application and the MySQL database). You will need these same values to configure the connection between Jamf Pro Server Tools and the MySQL database (see below). If these values are unknown to you, you may obtain them from the DataBase.xml file.

The DataBase.xml file resides in the following locations:

  • Linux servers: /usr/local/jss/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/xml

  • Windows servers: C:\Program Files\JSS\Tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\xml