This section includes database specific configuration for use with PaperCut MF.
Microsoft SQL Express provides enterprise class database performance for free. However it does have some limitations when compared to the full version of SQL Server. But these limitations are not likely to adversely affect most PaperCut MF users. These limitations include:
4GB limit on database sizes (10GB for SQL Server Express 2008 and 2012)
Limited to only use 1 CPU
Limited to only use 1GB of RAM
This section described how to configure Microsoft SQL Express edition for use with PaperCut MF. It is assumed that SQL Server Express is already installed with the default configuration.
Once this configuration is complete, the database can be used with PaperCut MF by following the instructions in the section called “Upsizing to an External RDBMS”.
PaperCut MF uses TCP/IP to connect to the SQL Server database, but SQL Server Express does not enable TCP support by default. To enable TCP/IP:
On the machine with SQL Express installed, open the SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Expand the SQL Server Network Configuration node on the left.
Select the Protocols for SQLEXPRESS node on the left.
Right-click the TCP/IP item on the right and select Properties.
On the General tab, change Enabled to Yes.
On the IP Addresses tab, under the IPAll node clear the TCP Dynamic Ports field. Also enter the port to listen on in the TCP Port field. For example, 1450. Remember this port, because it needs to be used in the PaperCut MF connection string.
On the button to save the changes.
Restart the Microsoft SQL Server Express service using either the standard service control panel or the SQL Express tools.
PaperCut MF requires SQL Server authentication to be enabled on the instance of SQL Express. To do this:
On the machine with SQL Express installed, open the SQL Server Management Studio Express tool.
Right-click the instance of SQL Express to configure, and select Properties.
Select the Security section on the left.
Change the Server Authentication to SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode.
Restart the Microsoft SQL Server Express service using either the standard service control panel or the SQL Express tools.
PaperCut MF requires a user to connect to the database. To create this user:
On the machine with SQL Express installed, open the SQL Server Management Studio Express tool.
Right-click the Security->Logins node, and select New Login ....
Enter the username (e.g. papercut).
Change the Server Authentication to SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode.
Enter the user's password.
Disable password expiration.
On the button to create the user.
After creating the PaperCut MF database assign this user db_owner
permissions on the database, so that it can create the required database tables.
To initialize the database, follow the instruction in the section called “Upsizing to an External RDBMS”.
MySQL is a free/open-source database solution that provides robust, proven and scalable storage at a great price. PaperCut MF supports MySQL 5.0 and higher.
PaperCut MF requires the use of the MySQL InnoDB table type, which provides full support for transactions. Please ensure your MySQL database server is configured to support InnoDB (usually this is enabled by default).
PaperCut MF does not ship with a database driver for MySQL because the MySQL licensing does not allow redistribution of the driver. These drivers can be downloaded for free from the MySQL website as described below.
To download the required version of the driver:
Visit the MySQL web site download page for the MySQL Connector/J product here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/.
Select the appropriate driver version (the latest version is best).
Download the driver package and unzip the contents to a temporary directory.
Find the driver JAR file, which is typically named mysql-connector-java-X.Y.Z-bin.jar.
Copy the JAR file into the [app-path]\server\lib-ext directory. This will allow
PaperCut MF to find and load the driver.
Once the driver is installed into PaperCut MF the standard upsizing procedure can be followed. See the section called “Upsizing to an External RDBMS”.
Oracle is a high-end database solution that provides a very robust and scalable data storage solution. And with the release of Oracle Express Edition, it is available at no cost, but it does have some limitations that should not impact PaperCut MF installations.
PaperCut MF supports Oracle versions 9.2 and higher. Oracle 8 (and earlier) are not supported because
they did not support the TIMESTAMP datatype required by PaperCut MF.
PaperCut MF does not ship with a driver for Oracle because Oracle does not allow us to redistribute the driver and the recommended driver depends on the version of Oracle used. These drivers can be obtained from the Oracle website as described below.
To download the required version of the driver:
Visit the Oracle web site here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/jdbc/index-091264.html
Select the appropriate Oracle version.
The required file to download will differ depending on the Oracle version. Download the ojdbc6.jar
for your version.
Copy the downloaded file into the [app-path]\server\lib-ext directory.
Restart the service PaperCut Application Server This will allow PaperCut to find and load the driver.
Once the driver is installed into PaperCut MF the standard upsizing procedure can be followed. See the section called “Upsizing to an External RDBMS”.
Microsoft SQL Server provides enterprise class database performance. With this type of database, it is recommended that the administrator puts in place a database re-index every month. This database optimization will help with general performance, and more specifically, large queries performed on the SQL database. These queries include Reporting, as well as Bulk Actions performed on multiple data points. It's highly recommended that this optimization be set up as a scheduled task after hours to ensure you see no performance issues due to database indexing problems.
The optimization we recommend you run is:
exec sp_msForEachTable @COMMAND1= 'DBCC DBREINDEX ( "?")';
exec sp_updatestats;
PaperCut support has seen databases with large databases with millions of print jobs complete this command in less than three minutes. The result was seen where reporting took 10-15 minutes before optimization, and now takes a matter of seconds.
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