Content Manager database settings
Settings for the Content Manager database are located in the Content Manager XML configuration file, Tridion.ContentManager.config, which you can find on the Content Manager server in the config\ subfolder of %TRIDION_HOME%.
Database type
| Description | The type of the database server. |
| XPath | /configuration/configSections/section/@type (if /configuration/configSections/section/@name has the value database) |
| Default if unspecified | (None) |
Server name
| Description | The name of the database server. To refer to a specific port number, fill in SERVERNAME,PORT, where SERVERNAME is the database server name and PORT is the port number of the instance. You can also use SERVERNAME\INSTANCENAME to refer to a specific instance. |
| XPath | /configuration/database/@server |
| Default if unspecified | (None) |
Name
| Description | The name of the database instance. |
| XPath | /configuration/database/@name |
| Default if unspecified | (None) |
User name
| Description | The user name used to sign in to the Content Manager database. |
| XPath | /configuration/database/@username |
| Default if unspecified | (None) |
Password
| Description | The password used to sign in to the Content Manager database. |
| XPath | /configuration/database/@password |
| Default if unspecified | (None) |
Authentication settings (Microsoft SQL Server databases only)
| Description | Set to Integrated if you want to use Windows Integrated Security |
| XPath | /configuration/database/@authenticationMethod |
| Default if unspecified | Normal |
Advanced connection settings
| Description | Set this setting if you want to specify any advanced connection settings for your SQL Server or Oracle database. To learn which properties you can set and which values they can have, refer to your database product documentation about connection strings. Write the connection string as a set of strings of the format SQL Server example: Oracle example:
Specifically, you can set the timeout for attempting to establish a connection to a database with this property-value pair:
where SECONDS is the number of seconds for the timeout period. |
| XPath | /configuration/database/@advancedSettings |
| Default if unspecified | (None) |