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Port number
TCP port number for connecting MySQL server (by default 3306).

User name
User name to login to MySQL .

Password
Password to login to MySQL server.

Connect through the Secure SHell (SSH) tunnel
Check this option to establish connection to intermediate SSH server before connecting to a database and forward all MySQL commands through the secure tunnel.

SSH host name
Specifies a name or IP address of SSH server host.

SSH port
TCP port number for connecting SSH server (by default 22).

SSH user name
User name to login to Secure SHell.

SSH password
Password to login to Secure SHell.

Note that MySQL host name always should be set relatively to the SSH server. For example, if both of MySQL and SSH servers are located on the same computer, you should specify localhost as Host name instead of server's external host name or IP address.