Help Manual - Google Cloud Monitoring Connection Manager

Documentation on SSIS Google Cloud Monitoring Connection Manager Component

Setting Up a REST Google Cloud Monitoring Connection Manager

The REST Connection Manager is an SSIS connection manager component that can be used to establish connections with Google Cloud Monitoring REST service to help facilitate data integration for Google Cloud Monitoring.

See Google Cloud Monitoring REST Source Component for how to retrieve data from Google Cloud Monitoring and Google Cloud Monitoring REST Destination Component for how to write to Google Cloud Monitoring.

To add a new connection, right-click the Connection Manager area in your Visual Studio project, and choose "New Connection..." from the context menu. You will be prompted the "Add SSIS Connection Manager" window. Select the "REST (KingswaySoft)" item to add a new REST Connection Manager.

New SSIS Connection

Add SSIS REST Connection Manager

The REST Connection Manager contains 2 pages for configuration:

  • General
  • Advanced Settings

General Page

The General page allows you to specify connection properties and login credentials for Google Cloud Monitoring REST service:

Google Cloud Monitoring Rest Connection Manager - General

Service Name

The REST service that will be connected to.

API Throttle Rate

The API Throttling Rate will limit the number of requests that can be sent per minute.

Authentication Mode

The Authentication Mode option allows you to specify the authentication mode when working with Google Cloud Monitoring service. Available options are:

  • OAuth Authorization Code
  • Service Account
Generate Token File…

This button allows you to login to the service endpoint and authorize your app to generate a token.

Google Cloud Monitoring Rest Connection Manager - OAuth

  • App Info: specify your own application registration with Google Cloud Monitoring:
    • Client Id
    • Client Secret
    • RedirectUrl
    • Scope
    • Use PKCE: Enable this option to use the PKCE OAuth authorization code flow.
  • Use Default Browser to Sign In
    • When this option is checked, the Generate Token File button will open your default web browser in order to complete the OAuth authentication.
    • When this option is unchecked, the Generate Token File button will complete the entire OAuth authentication process inside of the toolkit.
Path to Token File

The path to the Google Cloud Monitoring API token file on the file system.

Token File Password

The password to the token file.

Authentication Mode Service Account
JSON Key File Path ("Service Account " Authentication mode)

The path to the Google Cloud Monitoring API JSON Key file on the file system.

Service Account ("Service Account " Authentication mode)

The Google Cloud Monitoring API Service Account.

Google Cloud Monitoring Rest Connection Manager - Service Account

Test Connection

After all the connection information has been provided, you may click the "Test Connection" button to test if the user credentials entered can connect to the selected REST service.

Advanced Settings page

The Advanced Settings page has some additional options that can be configured.

Google Cloud Monitoring Rest Connection Manager - Advanced Settings

Proxy Mode

The Proxy Mode option allows you to specify how you want to configure the proxy server setting. There are three options available.

  • No Proxy
  • Auto-detect (Using system-configured proxy)
  • Manual
Proxy Server

Using the Proxy Server option allows you to specify the name of the proxy server for the connection.

Port

The Port option allows you to specify the port number of the proxy server for the connection.

Username (Proxy Server Authentication)

The Username option (under Proxy-Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user account.

Password (Proxy Server Authentication)

The Password option (under Proxy-Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user's password.

Note: The Proxy Password is not included in the connection manager's ConnectionString property by default. This is by design for security reasons. However, you can include it in your ConnectionString if you want to parameterize your connection manager. The format would be ProxyPassword=myProxyPassword; (make sure you have a semicolon as the last character). It can be anywhere in the ConnectionString.

Timeout

The number of seconds requests should wait before timing out.

Retry on Intermittent Errors

The Retry on Intermittent Errors option determines if requests will be retried when there is an error. If this option is checked, requests will be retried up to 3 times.

Ignore Certificate Errors

This option can be used to ignore those SSL certificate errors when connecting to Google Cloud Monitoring servers.

Warning: Enabling the "Ignore Certificate Errors" option is generally NOT recommended, particularly for production instances. Unless there is a strong reason to believe the connection is secure - such as the network communication is only happening in an internal infrastructure, this option should be unchecked for best security.