Vertica

Create an integration to manage access to a Vertica database

Vertica is a scalable and high-performance analytics database optimized for fast querying and analysis of large datasets. It delivers speed and flexibility for business intelligence and data warehousing applications.

Through this integration, Apono helps you securely manage access to your Vertica database and just-in-time (JIT) access to built-in and custom roles.

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Prerequisites

Item	Description
Apono Connector	On-prem connection serving as a bridge between a Vertica database instance and Apono: AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes
Vertica Information	Information for the database instance to be integrated: Hostname Port number Database name

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Create a Vertica user

You must create a user in your Vertica database instance for the Apono connector and grant that user permissions to the database resources.

Follow these steps to create a user and grant it permissions:

1. In your preferred client tool, create a new user. Be sure to set a strong password for the user.

   CREATE USER apono_connector IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

2. Grant the pseudosuperuser role to the user. This allows Apono to create or drop tables and manage user roles and permissions within the Vertica database.

   GRANT pseudosuperuser TO apono_connector;
   ALTER USER apono_connector DEFAULT ROLE pseudosuperuser;

3. Using the credentials from step 1, create a secret for the database instance.\

   Apono does not store credentials. The Apono Connector uses the secret to communicate with services in your environment and separate the Apono web app from the environment for maximal security.

You can now integrate your Vertica database.

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Integrate Vertica

Vertica Database tile

You can also use the steps below to integrate with Apono using Terraform.

In step 10, instead of clicking Confirm, follow the Are you integrating with Apono using Terraform? guidance.

Follow these steps to complete the integration:

1. On the Catalog tab, click Vertica Database. The Connect Integration page appears.

2. Under Discovery, click Next. The Apono connector section expands.

3. From the dropdown menu, select a connector. Choosing a connector links Apono to all the services available on the account where the connector is located.

If the desired connector is not listed, click + Add new connector and follow the instructions for creating a connector (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes).

1. Click Next. The Integration Config section expands.

2. Define the Integration Config settings.

   Setting	Description
   Integration Name	Unique, alphanumeric, user-friendly name used to identify this integration when constructing an access flow
   Hostname	Hostname of the Vertica database instance to connect
   Port	Port value for the instance By default, Apono sets this value to 5433.
   Database Name	Name of the database
3. Click Next. The Secret Store section expands.

4. Associate the secret or credentials.

5. Click Next. The Get more with Apono section expands.

6. Define the Get more with Apono settings.

   Setting	Description
   Credential Rotation	(Optional) Number of days after which the database credentials must be rotated
   Custom Access Details	(Optional) Instructions explaining how to access this integration's resources Upon accessing an integration, a message with these instructions will be displayed to end users in the User Portal. The message may include up to 400 characters. To view the message as it appears to end users, click Preview.
   Integration Owner	(Optional) Fallback approver if no resource owner is found Follow these steps to define one or several integration owners: From the Attribute dropdown menu, select User or Group under the relevant identity provider (IdP) platform. From the Value dropdown menu, select one or multiple users or groups. NOTE: When Resource Owner is defined, an Integration Owner must be defined.
   Resource Owner	(Optional) Group or role responsible for managing access approvals or rejections for the resource Follow these steps to define one or several resource owners: Enter a Key name. This value is the name of the tag created in your cloud environment. From the Attribute dropdown menu, select an attribute under the IdP platform to which the key name is associated. Apono will use the value associated with the key (tag) to identify the resource owner. When you update the membership of the group or role in your IdP platform, this change is also reflected in Apono. NOTE: When this setting is defined, an Integration Owner must also be defined.
7. Click Confirm.

💡Are you integrating with Apono using Terraform?

If you want to integrate with Apono using Terraform, follow these steps instead of clicking Confirm:

1. At the top of the screen, click View as Code. A modal appears with the completed Terraform configuration code.

2. Click to copy the code.

3. Make any additional edits.

4. Deploy the code in your Terraform.

Refer to Integration Config Metadata for more details about the schema definition.

Now that you have completed this integration, you can create access flows that grant permission to your Vertica database.