Defining Guardium datasources to access the HashiCorp vault

Configure the datasources on your Guardium® system for automatic password provisioning by using HashiCorp. You can create a new datasource definition or edit an existing definition.

1. To access an existing datasource definition, go to Setup > Tools and Views > Datasource Definitions, and click . To create a new datasource definition, see Creating a datasource definition.
2. Configure the Credential type by selecting the External password radio button.
3. In the External password type drop-down, select HashiCorp.
4. In the HashiCorp configuration drop-down, select the name of the HashiCorp configuration.
5. In the Role field, enter role name for the datasource that is created by the HashiCorp administrator .
6. Enter the Path if the HashiCorp administrator created a custom path to access the datasource credentials.
7. Enter the Host name/IP, Port number and Database information for the datasource if it has not been configured already.
8. Click Save and Test connection to ensure that the Guardium system can connect to the HashiCorp vault and fetch the datasource credential.

What to do next

Repeat steps 2 to 8 to configure all your Guardium datasources to access the HashiCorp vault.