Using the CAST-Connection-Profile-Configuration.py file

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CAST Storage Service (com.castsoftware.css) is End of Life and is no longer supported or distributed. Customers previously using CAST Storage Service must migrate to a standard PostgreSQL installation. CAST recommends PostgreSQL 18.x.

Info

Available in AIP Core ≥ 8.3.37.

Introduction

The file CAST-Connection-Profile-Configuration.py has been made available to allow you to manually create an entry in a cast-ms.connectionProfiles.pmx file. The file is available in the following location:

<AIP_Core_installation_location>\Tools\ConnectionProfile\CAST-Connection-Profile-Configuration.py

It should be executed via the command line or in a batch script using the python.exe provided in AIP Core here:

<AIP_Core_installation_location>\ThirdParty\Python34\python.exe

Syntax

python.exe CAST-Connection-Profile-Configuration.py --filepath my_connectionprofile_filename_with_path --name my_connection_profile_name --host my_css_postgres_host --port my_css_postgres_port --database my_css_postgres_database --user my_css_postgres_user --cryptedpassword my_crypted_password --schema my_mngt_schema_name

Parameter definition


–filepath FILEPATH	cast-ms.connectionProfiles.pmx file path, i.e. “`%APPDATA%\Cast\Cast\8.3`” (default: None).
–name CONNECTION PROFILE NAME	Name of the connection profile you want to edit or create.
–schema SCHEMA	Management Schema name (default: None).
–user USER	Username used to connect to CSS/PostgreSQL server (default: operator).
–host HOST	Host for CSS/PostgreSQL server (default: localhost)
–port PORT	Port for CSS/PostgreSQL server (default: 2282)
–database DATABASE	CSS/PostgreSQL database name (default: postgres)
–cryptedpassword CRYPTEDPASSWORD	Crypted password used to connect to CSS/PostgreSQL server for the user specified in –user. (default: CRYPTED2:90B1A6EC1618661401B724DB5AC34595 which corresponds to CastAIP)