Automated Continuous Aha! Replication to AlloyDB

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Aha! data into your AlloyDB instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure AlloyDB as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Aha! data to AlloyDB. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection. 👁 Add a new connection.
   
2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the AlloyDB connector. 👁 Configure a Destination connection to AlloyDB.
   
3. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. If the Configure Connection icon is not available, click the Download Connector icon to install the AlloyDB connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see Connections in the Help documentation.
4. To connect to AlloyDB, set the following connection properties:
   • Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice for the AlloyDB connection.
   • Server: Enter the host name or IP of the server that hosts the AlloyDB database. The default server value is localhost.
   • Auth Scheme: Select the authentication scheme. The default auth scheme is Password.
   • User: Enter the user ID provided for authentication with the AlloyDB database.
   • Password: Enter the password provided for authentication with the AlloyDB database.
   • Database: Enter the name of the database.
   • Port: Enter the port number of the server that hosts the AlloyDB database. The default port value is 5432.
👁 Enter the connection details.

5. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to AlloyDB and can use it as both a source and a destination.

NOTE: You can use the Label feature to add a label for a source or a destination.

👁 Add a label.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to load Aha! data into AlloyDB and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the Aha! Connection

You can configure a connection to Aha! from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Aha! account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (Aha!).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   Set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Aha! (see below).

   Aha! API Profile Settings

   The Aha! API uses OAuth-based authentication.

   You will first need to register an OAuth app with Aha!. This can be done from your Aha! account under 'Settings' > 'Personal' > 'Developer' > 'OAuth Applications'. Additionally, set the Domain, found in the domain name of your Aha account. For example if your Aha account is acmeinc.aha.io, then the Domain should be 'acmeinc'.

   After setting the following properties, you are ready to connect:

   • OAuthClientId: Set this to the client_id that is specified in you app settings.
   • OAuthClientSecret: Set this to the client_secret that is specified in you app settings.
   • CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URI you specified in your app settings.
   • ProfileSettings: Set this to the collection of profile specific properties (e.g. "Domain=acmeinc").
   👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
   
4. Click Connect to Aha! to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save & Test to save the changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

👁 Select Source and Destination connections for the replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, navigate to the Task tab in the Job, click Add Tasks, choose the table(s) from the list of Aha! tables you wish to replicate into AlloyDB, and click Add Tasks again.

👁 Choose entire tables to replicate (Salesforce is shown).

Customize Your Replication

You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication with the help of SQL queries. 👁 Configure a replication Transform.

Schedule Your Replication

Select the Overview tab in the Job, and click Configure under Schedule. You can schedule a job to run automatically by configuring it to run at specified intervals, ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

👁 Schedule your job to run automatically.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your Aha! data to AlloyDB.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Aha! table you wish to replicate and click Run. After the replication completes successfully, a notification appears, showing the time taken to run the job and the number of rows replicated.

👁 Run the job.

Free Trial & More Information

Now that you have seen how to replicate Aha! data into AlloyDB, visit our CData Sync page to explore more about CData Sync and download a free 30-day trial. Start consolidating your enterprise data today!

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