The RDB via Snapshot Connector can be configured using the Aspire Admin UI. It requires the following entities to be created:

• Credential
• Connection
• Connector
• Seed

Bellow are the examples of how to create the Credential, Connection and the Seed. For the Connector please check this page.

Create Credential

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the credentials tab 
2. All existing credential will be list. Click on the new button 
3. Enter the new credential description. 
4. Select Rdb-Snapshot from the Type list.
5. Enter User and Password. Note: The password will be automatically encrypted by Aspire.

Create Connection

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the connections tab 
2. All existing connection will be list. Click on the new button 
3. Enter the new connection description. 
4. Select Rdb-Snapshot from the Type list.
5. In the "JDBC Url" field in the Properties section, enter the JDBC URL for the database to be crawled.

   1. RDBMS URLs

      An RDBMS "URL" is needed to tell the connector application what database to crawl. The exact form of this URL is dictated by the JDBC driver and therefore the database vendor, but will be of the form

      jdbc:<vendor>://<server>:<port>/{DATABASE}

      For example:  jdbc:mysql://192.168.40.27/{DATABASE} - the marker {DATABASE} will be replaced with the value of Database name field (see Create Seed section on this page)

      See your database vendor's documentation for more information on JDBC URLs.

6. In the "JDBC Driver Jar:" field, enter the name of the JAR file containing the driver for your database.
7. In the "JDBC Driver Class" field, enter the Java class name for the driver (optional)
8. If your JDBC Driver jar does not contain all the necessary classes, you may add additional jar files in to the class path. To do this, select "Specify classpath" and enter the classpath to the jars containing the classes. The classpath may include jar files, directories or individual classes.
9. etc.

The description of all "connection" fields  can be found here.

Create Connector

For the creation of the Connector object using the Admin UI check this page

Create Seed

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the seeds tab 
2. All existing seeds will be list. Click on the new button 
3. Enter the new seed description. 
4. Select Rdb-Snapshot from the Type list.
5. Database name field: The name of the database. It will replace the marker {DATABASE} used in the field jdbcUrl of connection object
6. etc.

The description of all "seed" fields can be found here.