HQbird Firebird v5.0

HQbird Firebird 5.0.4.1722-11.3.1017 installed on Ubuntu 24

Software Included

Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the HQbird Firebird v5.0 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB HQbird Firebird v5.0 Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "ibsurgeon-hqbirdfirebirdv5"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"

Getting Started After Deploying HQbird Firebird v5.0

Getting Started with HQbird Cloud Firebird

Steps to deploy your Firebird database:

1. To start using HQbird, login to http://your_droplet_public_ipv4:8082 and enter user and password: admin/strong password.

   HQbird has free 30 days trial, already activated on this image.

2. Upload database using embedded FTP. Default settings: ftp://your_droplet_public_ipv4:8721, user admin2, password “strong password2”, home folder $DB_PATH

   Access to database files is restricted to $DB_PATH by default.

3. Register databases you need to manage and monitor - for this click in the right bottom of HQbird to wheel “Add database”, specify full path for the database, and then setup backups, replication, etc.

   See HQbird User Guide for details

   After adding database, you can access monitoring web console http://your_droplet_public_ipv4:8083

4. Default passwords for Firebird databases SYSDBA/masterkey (for both Srp and Legacy_UserManager).

5. For security reasons, change all passwords: SYSDBA, FTP and HQbird.

• FTP password: click the third from the right icon in the top bar (you can see hint “Internal FTP server”), then type new password in the line “Access password”
• HQbird password: click the link with Installation name right to the HQbird release data (e.g. HQbird 2024 R2 11.3.1006), then press button “Change web-access password”
• SYSDBA database password: locate widget “Active Server” in the upper left part of the page, click gear wheel icon in the top right corner of the widget panel, press button “Change Firebird Server SYSDBA Password”, a new window for a new password will open, type it here, then close. Do not forget to type new password in the line “SYSDBA password”.