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Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:

Property	Description
Connection Name	Name of the connection. Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _. + -, Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description	Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Use Secret Vault	Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization. This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization. This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication and the Data Access Management services. When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured. If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option. For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see "Secrets manager configuration" in the Administrator help .
Runtime Environment	Name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks. For application ingestion and replication tasks and database ingestion and replication tasks, you can use a Secure Agent or serverless runtime environment. The tasks must have a source type supported for serverless use. For file ingestion and replication tasks, use a Secure Agent. You can't run an application ingestion and replication task, database ingestion and replication task, or file ingestion and replication task on a Hosted Agent or elastic runtime environment. For more information about how to configure and use the runtime environments, see Runtime Environments in the Administrator help.