Creating the Placement Database

Placement provides an HTTP API for tracking the resource provider inventories and usage. Perform the following operations on the controller node.

1. Access the MySQL database.

   1	mysql -u root -p

2. Create a Placement database.

   1	CREATE DATABASE placement;

3. Grant proper access to the database, and set PASSWORD to the access password of the database user placement.

   1	GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON placement.* TO 'placement'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';

4. Exit the database access client.

   exit