Setup a REST LinkedIn Business Connection Manager
The REST Connection Manager is an SSIS connection manager component that can be used to establish connections with LinkedIn Business REST service to help facilitate data integration for LinkedIn Business.
See LinkedIn Business REST Source Component for how to retrieve data from LinkedIn Business and LinkedIn Business REST Destination Component for how to write to LinkedIn Business.
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.
The REST Connection Manager contains 2 pages of configuration.
- General
- Advanced Settings
General
The General page allows you to specify connection properties and login credentials for LinkedIn Business REST service:
- Service Name
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The REST service that will be connected to.
- API Throttle Rate
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The API Throttling Rate will limit the number of requests that can be sent per minute.
- Generate Token File
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This button opens a dialogue box to sign-in to your LinkedIn Business instance to generate a new Authentication Token.
Here you can enter the Client ID and Client Secret which you would be getting from OAuth setup at the API side. The Redirect URL would be the one that you had specified in the App settings. The Scope can be specified as well.
- Use Default Browser to Sign In: When this option is checked the Sign In and Authorize button will open your default web browser in order to complete the OAuth authentication. When this option is unchecked, the Sign In and Authorize button will complete the entire OAuth authentication process inside of the toolkit.
- Sign In and Authorize: This button allows you to login to the service endpoint and authorize your app to generate a token.
- Access Token
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This field will contain the Access token which is going to be used to connect to your LinkedIn Business instance. Please note that Access Tokens last for 60 days.
- Show Button
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Clicking on this button allows you to see or copy the token in the 'Access Token' field.
- Test Connection
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After all the connection information has been provided, click the "Test Connection" button to test if the user credentials entered can connect to the selected REST service.
Advanced Settings page
- Proxy Mode
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Proxy Mode option allows 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
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Using Proxy Server option allows you to specify the name of the proxy server for the connection.
- Port
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The Port option allows you to specify the port number of the proxy server for the connection.
- Username (Proxy Server Authentication)
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Username option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user account.
- Password (Proxy Server Authentication)
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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
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The number of seconds requests should wait before timing out.
- Retry on Intermittent Errors
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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
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This option can be used to ignore those SSL certificate errors when connecting to Slack servers.
Warning: Enabling "Ignore Certificate Errors" option is generally NOT recommended, particularly for production instance. 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.