Setting Up the Aster Driver on the Client

Setting Up the Aster Driver on the Client - Teradata® Database

Database Analytic Functions

Product

Teradata® Database

Release Number

17.10

Published

July 2021

Language

English (United States)

Last Update

2021-07-28

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Product Category

Teradata Vantage™

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Download AsterClients__windows_x8664.version.zip, where version is the version of Aster Analytics on your client machine; for example:
AsterClients__windows_x8664.06.20.00.00.zip

Downloading the packages takes several minutes.
On your client machine, go to the folder where the package was downloaded and unzip it.
Go to the subfolder \stage\home\beehive\clients-winnn , where nn is 32, 64, or 86, depending on your Windows machine. For example:
\stage\home\beehive\clients-win64
Install nClusterODBCInstaller_xnn.
If the installer requests a dependency package, install it from the web.
Open ODBC Data Sources (nn-bit).
On the System DSN tab, select Add.
If Aster ODBC driver installation succeeded, the window Aster ODBC Driver appears.
In the window Aster ODBC Driver, select Finish.

In the DSN Setup form that appears, enter the following values and select OK:

Field	Value
Data Source	Name of data source to use in tpt script
Server	IP address of Aster queen
Port	2406
Database	Aster Database
Username	User name
Password	User password
MaxLenVarchar	Default length of unbounded VARCHAR data item