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Connect to Oracle Autonomous Database

Let's configure the Oracle Autonomous Database connection properties to connect to Oracle Autonomous Database.

Before you begin

Before you get started, get the required information from your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account based on the object storage authentication type that you want to configure.
Check out Prerequisites to learn more about this task.

Connection details

When you create an Oracle Autonomous Database connection, configure the connection properties.
The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Oracle Autonomous Database
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent.
User Name
The user name to access the Oracle Autonomous Database. It is used to authenticate the connection.
Password
The password associated with the user name.

Authentication types

You can configure TLS or mutual TLS authentication to connect to Oracle Autonomous Database. Select the required authentication type and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.
Default is mutual TLS authentication.

Object storage authentication types

You can configure ConfigFile or simple authentication for staging the connection when you connect to Oracle Autonomous Database. Select the required authentication type and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.
Default is ConfigFile authentication.