Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Create a Generic connection

You must create a Generic connection for the any connection you intend to use with OCI GoldenGate Data Transforms.

See supported connection types for Data Transforms to ensure your data source is supported.
To create a Generic connection:
  1. From the OCI GoldenGate Overview page, click Connections.
    You can also click Create Connection under the Get started section and skip to step 3.
  2. On the Connections page, click Create Connection.
  3. On the Create Connection page, complete the fields as follows:
    1. For Name, enter a name for the connection.
    2. (Optional) For Description, enter a description that helps you distinguish this connection from others.
    3. For Compartment, select the compartment in which to create the connection.
    4. From the Type dropdown, under Generic, select Generic connection.
    5. For Host, enter a comma separated list of <host>:<port> entries. Enter the Private IP only if the hostname is not resolvable from your subnet or if it uses SSL/TLS.
      Note

      If you enter a private IP, then OCI GoldenGate rewrites the private IP in the format, ip-10-0-0-0.ociggsvc.oracle.vcn.com.
    6. Expand Show advanced options. You can configure the following options:
      • Security:
        • Select Use Oracle-managed encryption key to leave all encryption key management to Oracle.
        • Select Use customer-managed encryption key to select a specific encryption key stored in your OCI Vault to encrypt your connection credentials.
      • Network connectivity
        • Shared endpoint, to share an endpoint with the assigned deployment. You must allow connectivity from the deployment's ingress IP.
        • Dedicated endpoint, for network traffic through a dedicated endpoint in the assigned subnet in your VCN. You must allow connectivity from this connection's ingress IPs.
          Note

          • If a dedicated connection remains unassigned for seven days, then the service converts it to a shared connection.
          • Learn more about Oracle GoldenGate connectivity.
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  4. Click Create.
It takes a few minutes for the connection to become Active. Ensure that you assign the connection to a deployment to use it in Data Transforms. After assigning the connection to the Data Transforms deployment, launch the console, and then log in. You must then create a connection for each data source in the Data Transforms console using the Host name(s) provided in the Generic connection(s).