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  3. Section IX. Data Protection
  4. Configuration for Commvault Simpana
  5. Set up a read-only user in the CommServe server

Set up a read-only user in the CommServe server

The Data Collector uses Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) as a read-only user (including executing some read-only functions) to collect point-in-time data from the Commvault Simpana CommServe database. The Data Collector also uses a Commvault Simpana command-line tool (sendLogFiles.exe - executed using WMI on the CommServe server) to collect log files from client machines managed by the CommServe server.

There are two methods to set up an optional read-only user in the CommServe database. Choose one.

Note:

MS SQL Server must be set to Mixed-mode authentication and the login to be used for collection must be using SQL authentication.

  1. Create a new read-only user with a non-expiring password and assign the db_datareader role in the CommServe database. After completing the following steps, verify the connectivity with the read-only user ID.

  2. Grant EXECUTE permission for the following stored procedures to the new read-only user:

    dbo.GetDateTime

    dbo.GetUnixTime

    dbo.GetJobFailureReason

    dbo.JMGetLocalizedMessageFunc

There are two methods for assigning EXECUTE permission.

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