Add a Netezza database connection
You can add a connection to a Netezza database using ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Follow these steps:
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Select Connections in the top navigation bar.
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In the Connections interface, select Add connection in the upper-right corner.
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In the Create Connection interface, select the Connection type.
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After you select the Netezza Connection type, the rest of the connection properties appear.
See Connection properties for details, defaults, and examples.
- Connection name
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Name your connection.
- Connection type
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Choose the Netezza connection type.
- Host
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Specify the hostname or the IP address of the Netezza system.
- Port
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Specify the port associated to the Netezza system.
- User
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Specify the user id that will be used to connect to the Netezza system. This user should have necessary privileges to access the data in the databases.
- Password
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Specify the password for the User.
- Enter password/Fetch password from vault
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Select whether to enter password or fetch and use the password you have stored in external vault providers (e.g. AWS Secrets Manager).
- Vault provider
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Select the name of your external vault provider.
- Secrets manager region
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Region of the AWS account where secret manager is defined.
- Secret name or ARN
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If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a fully qualified Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret.
- Remote role ARN
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If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a remote role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) where secret manager is not defined.
- Key name in secret
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Key name given for the secret, to get its value.
- JDBC options
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Specify the options associated with the JDBC URL.
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Select Create connection.
