DB2 installation
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DB2 has been certified by IBM for use inside Virtuozzo. It works in OpenVZ too!
IBM provides a free download of DB2 Express-C which is what I installed.
Here is a rough guide to installing DB2 into a freshly-created VE.
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[edit] Create a new VE
I created a new VE for the Debian distribution using debootstrap, as described in Debian template creation.
[edit] Set VE resource limits appropriately
These are tested resource limits for x86-64 system running Debian/GNU Linux 5.0.6:
- kmemsize to 26214400:29491200
- privvmpages to 2097152:unlimited
- shmpages to 1572864
- numproc to 400
- tcpsndbuf to 1720320:2703360
- tcprcvbuf to 1720320:2703360
- vmguardpages to 2097152:unlimited
- oomguardpages to 26112:unlimited
And according to DB2 9 documentation, the following minimal guest kernel options must be set in /etc/sysctl.conf:
kernel.shmmax = 1073741824 kernel.sem = 250 256000 32 1024 kernel.msgmax = 65535 kernel.msgmnb = 65535
[edit] Install additional packages
- libstdc++5 (required for installation)
- pdksh (required for operation?)
- ssh (may be required for operation)
- xbase-clients (for xauth)
- firefox (for post-installation)
- strace and telnet (for debugging)
- libdbi-perl gcc libc6-dev make (for building CPAN DBD::DB2 package)
[edit] Download the DB2 Express-C package
DB2 Express-C version 9 is available from this page: [[1]]
You will need to register with IBM before you can download.
- Untar the received file as root
- Run exp/disk1/db2setup
- Follow the prompts:
- Setup user 'dasusr1'
- Setup user 'db2inst1' and database instance 'db2inst1'
[edit] Post-install actions
This is where it gets yukky. DB2 wants to run a browser inside the VE. It wants to run Java applets inside the browser. I installed Iceweasel, but the post-install script does not recognise it. I was eventually able to hack the script to recognise and use the browser but it crashed on one of the Java applets. I think you can get by without running the post-install.
Here's what to do instead:
First, su to the instance owner:
- su - db2inst1
Try starting and stopping the database:
- db2start
- db2stop
If these don't work it means your environment variables are not set properly. IBM set these for me:
CLASSPATH=/home/db2inst1/sqllib/java/db2java.zip:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/java/sqlj.zip:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/function:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar:. DB2INSTANCE=db2inst1 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/bin:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/adm:/home/db2inst1/sqllib/misc
Try creating IBM's sample database:
- db2sampl
[edit] Setup a development environment
I develop in perl so I was most interested in access to the database though the DBI library. I did this:
- Use CPAN to download and install DBD::DB2
If you don't use CPAN you can also do this (as root):
- Download http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/I/IB/IBMTORDB2/DBD-DB2-1.1.tar.gz
- Untar the file and change into the directory
- perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr
- make
- make test
- make install
[edit] Setup DB2 for autostart
It seems that DB2 can be auto-started at VE boot time, but not auto-stopped. I used this script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to start DB2 instances on bootup.
#
set -e
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
start)
echo Starting DB2
/opt/ibm/db2/V9.1/instance/db2istrt
;;
stop)
;;
restart|reload)
;;
esac
exit 0
And I used this command to create the symlink to make it start at VE "boot" time:
update-rc.d db2 start 95 2 .
[edit] Testing your installation
From the db2inst1 user, do:
- db2
Inside the db2 client, try:
connect to sample grant dbadm on database to user fred connect reset
[edit] Enjoy!
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