MySQL

Open the command prompt and navigate to your MySQL installation folder (i.e. C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.1\bin)

Establish connection to your MySQL server by using the command:

mysql.exe -uroot

In this example the username is root.In a new MySQL instance, root is the default user and can be logged in without a password. If you are using an existing MySQL Server instance, the username and password may be different.

Create a new database user which Zephyr will connect as. The command to create a new user is seen below:

CREATE USER 'zephyrDBuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'zephyrDBuserPass';

Now type the below command to make the Database accessible remotely.

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'zephyrDBuser'@'localhost';

zephyrDBuser represents the username and ZephyrDBuserPass is the password for the newly created user from Step 2.

The '*.*' is granting permissions to all databases. Replace 127.0.01 with the IP address of the server Zephyr will be installed on. This command will grant access to ALL databases for the IP addresses given. The minimum permission requirement are the privileges to create and populate tables.

If you are installing the database with data center in mind, you will need to grant permissions for each node in the cluster.

SELECT * from information_schema.user_privileges;

Now you an access your MySQL database remotely from the designated IP(s).

Navigate to the my.ini file (Windows) or my.cnf (Linux), the default locations are the MySQL root folders.

Set the following values for the parameters:

If no lines contain these parameters, then create new lines for them.

SELECT @@innodb_buffer_pool_size;

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'query_cache_size';

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ' key_buffer_size ';

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'max_connections';

Now the MySQL database is ready, open the Zephyr installer. The wizard will take you through the setup steps.

By default the binary logging is enabled in MySQL 8.0. Customers need to disable it while upgrading their MySQL from 5.7.x to 8.0.