Ensure that you install SAP MaxDB on its own global device group.
For information about the content of this file, see the SAP MaxDB documentation. For the name of the server on which the database is running, specify the logical hostname for the SAP MaxDB resource that you specified in Configuration Planning Questions.
For an example of the content of this file, see Example 4, Information About a Database User Who Administers a SAP MaxDB Instance.
Use the SAP MaxDB command xuser for this purpose.
# xuser -b user-info-file
Specifies the plain text file from which you are generating the .XUSER.62 file
To ensure that the same owner owns the directory and its contents on all nodes, use the tar command and the ssh command.
# tar cfB - /usr/spool/sql | ssh destination "cd /;tar xfB -"
Specifies the node to which you are copying the /usr/spool/sql directory and its contents
The following example shows a plain text file that contains information about a database user that administers an SAP MaxDB instance.
Copy the /etc/opt/sdb directory and its contents from the node on which you installed SAP MaxDB to all nodes where resources for SAP MaxDB and SAP xserver will run.
To ensure that the same owner owns the directory and its contents on all nodes, use the tar command and the ssh command.
# tar cfB - /etc/opt/sdb | ssh destination "cd /;tar xfB -"
Specifies the node to which you are copying the /etc/opt/sdb directory and its contents
DEFAULT dbm dbm TST srvr-1 blank line blank line -1 -1 blank line
This example specifies the following information about a database user who administers an SAP MaxDB instance:
The user key that is used to address this combination of XUSER data is named DEFAULT.
The user name and password of the database user are dbm.
The name of the SAP MaxDB instance is TST.
The logical hostname for the SAP MaxDB resource is srvr-1.
No structured query language (SQL) mode is specified.
The default time-out value of the SAP MaxDB instance is used.
The default isolation level of the SAP MaxDB instance is used.
For more information, see the SAP MaxDB documentation.