Before you create an Oracle Autonomous Database connection to read from or write to Oracle Autonomous Database, be sure to complete the prerequisites.
Prepare for object storage authentication
You can configure the following object storage authentication methods for Oracle Autonomous Database Connector:
ConfigFile authentication
The ConfigFile authentication uses identity credentials of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) account provided through a configuration file for authentication. This authentication method is based on the profile selected in the configuration file.
You can create a configuration file in the following format:
You require the user OCID, fingerprint, and tenancy OCID information from the OCI account for the configuration file.
For more information about the steps to extract the identity credentials from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, see the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation.
By default, the OCI configuration file is located at ~/.oci/config on the Secure Agent machine. The ~/.oci/config file can contain several profiles. The default profile name is DEFAULT. You can change the default profile name to any new profile names based on the profiles that you add to the ~/.oci/config file. The ~/.oci/config file cannot contain two profiles with the same name.
Simple authentication
The simple authentication uses API keys for authentication. You can provide the authentication details in the Oracle Autonomous Database connection. You need to place the private key file in the Secure Agent machine.
You require the user OCID, fingerprint, and tenancy OCID information from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account to create an Oracle Autonomous Database connection.
For more information about the steps to extract the identity credentials from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, see the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation.