chartio

======= Chartio

Chartio utilities for providing read-only user local database access.

Version 6.0.1

Introduction

This project permits Chartio customers to provide database access by opening an SSH reverse tunnel from a Chartio server to the customer database.

Errors, comments, questions may be sent to support at chartio.com

Requirements

Requires a read-only database role and a local SSH client. Requires JSON support (Python 2.6 or Python 2.5 and simplejson).

Supported Databases

MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL Amazon Redshift

Installation

To install, type::

$ python setup.py install

To uninstall, remove the files chartio_setup chartio_connect

Troubleshooting

The log file ~/.chartio.d/logs/chartio_connect.log contains information about the chartio_connect process.

Documentation

Further documentation may be found at https://support.chartio.com/docs/index/

Package Contents

chartio_setup
    The configuration wizard

chartio_connect
    A script to keep the SSH tunnel alive

Notable Changes

Version 6.0.1

• Deprecate chartio_setup

Version 5.0.0

• Add support for PrestoDB
• Remove inline datasource schema refresh. Status can be checked on the website.

Version 4.0.0

• Add support for AmazonRedshift

Version 3.1.0

• Add option to specify the hostname of the database server.

Version 3.0.0

• Backwards incompatible update for new Chartio permissions structure.

Version 2.0.4

• Change the ternary operator to if ... else so that Python 2.4.x does not raise a syntax error.

Version 2.0.3

• Update command-line error handling to work with a MySQL 5.6 Warning

Version 2.0.2

• Copyright, e-mail, and text changes

Version 2.0.1

• Backwards incompatible due to server URL changes

Version 1.1.19

• Correct port type issue

Version 1.1.18

• Specify SSH listen port to override local SSH configuration

Version 1.1.17

• Change domain to chartio.com

Version 1.1.16

• add option to post error information to Chartio

Version 1.1.13

• add Oracle support

Version 1.1.12

• check Chartio version

Version 1.1.7

• permit manual entry of database and readonly user/password

Version 1.1.6

• grant 'SHOW VIEW' access when creating mysql read-only database user
• bug fix for handling of blank database administrator password