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.. _installing_manually:

=====================
 Installing Manually
=====================


Storage Backend Installation
============================

This step is a prerequisite for the collector, notification agent and API
services. You may use one of the listed database backends below to store
Aodh data.


The recommended Aodh storage backend is any SQLAlchemy-supported database
(`PostgreSQL` or `MySQL`). You need to create a `aodh` database first and then
initialise it by running::

 aodh-dbsync

To use MySQL as the storage backend, change the 'database' section in
aodh.conf as follows::

 [database]
 connection = mysql+pymysql://username:password@host/aodh?charset=utf8