Connect to Repository Directly Using Native Credentials

Connecting directly means you enter your regular username and password for the database, pointed at the sidecar instead of the database. The sidecar forwards the connection to the repository and captures the resulting activity.

Prerequisites

• The repository, sidecar, and the listener-port binding between them are registered in ALTR. See Repositories and Manage Sidecar Information.

To connect directly using native credentials:

1. Open a SQL client.
2. Enter the sidecar’s hostname and listener port in place of the repository’s own hostname and port.
3. Enter your regular username and password for the database, along with any database-specific connection fields the client requires.
4. Connect. The SQL client authenticates to the sidecar, which forwards the connection to the repository.