Problems with adding external database server

[Henrik_Markarian]

We have several websites hosted on our dedicated server that is managed by Plesk 11. We need to add a database server to allow database access from outside localhost -- when we add the database server (using any of the hosted domains or the IP of the server) we get the following error:

Error: Connection Refused.

When browsing to the server page we get the following warning:

Warning: The last attempt to control this database server failed because of network problems.

The database server is setup with defaults:

host name or IP address: IP of the server
Port number: 3306 (its left blank but Plesk populates with this port number)
Database server type: MySQL
Use this server as default for MySQL: No

Any recommendations as to where to go with this??

 

[IgorG]

If I correctly understood you have MySQL server installed on other physical server?
Have you tried connect to this server from Plesk server with CLI mysql command?