Preface

Purpose of this document

The Symfoware Server database system extends the PostgreSQL features and runs on the Linux platform.

This document is the Symfoware Server Operation Guide.

Intended readers

This document is intended for those who install and operate Symfoware Server.

Readers of this document are assumed to have general knowledge of:

Structure of this document

This document is structured as follows:

Chapter 1 Operating Symfoware Server: Describes how to operate Symfoware Server

Chapter 2 Starting an Instance and Creating a Database: Describes how to start a Symfoware Server instance, and how to create a database

Chapter 4 Configuring Secure Communication Using Secure Sockets Layer: Describes communication data encryption between the client and the server

Chapter 5 Protecting Storage Data Using Transparent Data Encryption: Describes how to encrypt the data to be stored in the database

Chapter 6 Periodic Operations: Describes the periodic database operations that must be performed on Symfoware Server

Chapter 7 Actions when an Error Occurs: Describes how to perform recovery when disk failure or data corruption occurs

Appendix B System Administration Functions: Describes the system administration functions of Symfoware Server

Appendix C System View: Describes how to use the system view in Symfoware Server

Appendix D Activating and Stopping the Web Server Feature of WebAdmin: Describes how to activate and stop WebAdmin (Web server feature)

Appendix E Collecting Failure Investigation Data: Describes how to collect information for initial investigation

Issue date and version

First edition: November 2013
Second edition: January 2014