Plan your HCL Compass database set architecture

Determine the number of schema repositories and user databases required for HCL Compass environment and the vendor databases and servers that support your database set.

All deployments of HCL Compass must have an administrative host. The administrative host contains the administrative tools that are used to manage the HCL Compass environment. All the tools necessary for administering the database set, MultiSite, users and user groups and other administrative responsibilities are installed on this computer. The client components can also be installed for basic Compass functionality such as creating and working with queries, records, charts, and reports.

The Administrative host must be installed on Windows™.

Selecting your servers and databases

HCL Compass allows you to architect your environment in any manor that best suites your organization's needs as along as all the servers and databases are supported. You may already know the type of configuration you want and therefore your next step is simply to verify that you servers and databases are supported. If you only have a rough idea of how your environment should look, here are a few implications to consider:
  • How geographically distributed is your organization?
  • How many users to have and what will be their performance needs?
  • Do you plan to deploy a Web environment?
  • Do you plan to deploy a MultiSite environment?
For more information about managing databases, and server and vendor database support, review the following sections: