1 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MySQL

Installation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS:
  1. # yum install mysql-connector-odbc
  • Debian/Ubuntu:

Please refer to MySQL documentation to download necessary database driver for the corresponding platform.

For some additional information please refer to: installing unixODBC.

Configuration

ODBC configuration is done by editing odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini files. These configuration files can be found in /etc folder. The file odbcinst.ini may be missing and in this case it is necessary to create it manually.

odbcinst.ini

  1. [mysql]
  2. Description = General ODBC for MySQL
  3. Driver      = /usr/lib64/libmyodbc5.so
  4. Setup       = /usr/lib64/libodbcmyS.so 
  5. FileUsage   = 1

Please consider the following examples of odbc.ini configuration parameters.

  • An example with a connection through an IP:
  1. [TEST_MYSQL]                                                     
  2. Description = MySQL database 1                                   
  3. Driver  = mysql                                                  
  4. Port = 3306                                                      
  5. Server = 127.0.0.1
  • An example with a connection through an IP and with the use of credentials. A Zabbix database is used by default:
  1. [TEST_MYSQL_FILLED_CRED]                       
  2. Description = MySQL database 2                 
  3. Driver  = mysql                                
  4. User = root                                    
  5. Port = 3306                                    
  6. Password = zabbix                           
  7. Database = zabbix                             
  8. Server = 127.0.0.1
  • An example with a connection through a socket and with the use of credentials. A Zabbix database is used by default:
  1. [TEST_MYSQL_FILLED_CRED_SOCK]                  
  2. Description = MySQL database 3                 
  3. Driver  = mysql                                
  4. User = root                                    
  5. Password = zabbix                           
  6. Socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock           
  7. Database = zabbix

All other possible configuration parameter options can be found in MySQL official documentation web page.