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 of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.

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.

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.

For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see

"Secrets manager configuration" in the Administrator help

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The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.

Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, serverless, or elastic runtime environment.

For more information about how to configure a serverless environment with key pair authentication, see Use the serverless runtime environment with key pair authentication.

Don't use a Hosted Agent if you use the connection in mappings in advanced mode or if you configure key pair authentication to connect to Snowflake.