Once MySQL Administrator has been started, it displays a connection dialog box. Specify the MySQL server you would like to connect to, the necessary credentials, and both the host and port. You may also specify a number of other options, if required.
As an alternative to connecting to a running MySQL server, you can run MySQL Administrator in configure -service mode.
Note that MySQL Administrator will not work with MySQL servers prior to version 4.0. If you try to connect to an older server, an error message will appear, telling you that this is not possible.
If the server connection is successfully established, all of the
values filled in the fields of the connection dialog will be saved
for future connections (see the section that describes
how
MySQL Administrator stores connection information). The
Password field, however, will always be empty:
For security reasons, the password is not stored along with the
other options, unless you explicitly specify otherwise in the
General Options
section of the Options dialog.
You can change any of the values in the connection profiles by
overwriting the existing values with new ones. Similarly, if you
select another connection profile, you can change any of its
values. When you click the button after
changing a profile's values, the changes are stored permanently if
a successful connection to the MySQL server is established.
However, the preferred method for changing a profile is to click
the button next to the
Connection drop-down box. That brings up an
Options dialog window that has a
Connections section for modifying connection
profiles. You can find the values you can set in the Connection
dialog window in the description of the
Connections section of the
Options dialog (see
Options
dialog).
