Setting up SafeGuard Enterprise Database

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SafeGuard Enterprise stores all relevant data such as keys, certificates, information about users and computers, events, and policy settings in a database. The SafeGuard Enterprise Database is based on Microsoft SQL Server.

Check the list of currently supported SQL Server types in the system requirements section of the current release notes.

When using the SQL Express Edition, remember the maximum file size limitation of the database given by Microsoft. In large environments, using the SQL Express Edition might be inappropriate.

You can set up the database either automatically during first-time configuration in the SafeGuard Management Center or manually using the SQL scripts provided in your product delivery. Depending on your enterprise environment, check which method to choose. In both cases, you must first make sure that you have the necessary database access rights, see Database access rights.

Multiple SafeGuard Enterprise Databases can be created and maintained for different tenants such as different company locations, organizational units or domains (multi tenancy). For multi tenancy mode all tenants must have installed the same version of SafeGuard Enterprise. To configure multi tenancy, see Working with multiple database configurations (Multi Tenancy).

To communicate to SQL over a firewall, TCP/IP ports 1433 and 1434 are required.