Linux DSN Configuration
This section describes how to set up ODBC connectivity and configure DSNs on several Linux distributions: Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu, and Red Hat Linux platforms, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora.
Minimum Linux Versions
Here are the minimum supported versions for Red Hat-based and Debian-based systems:
| OS | Min. Version |
| Ubuntu | 11.04 |
| Debian | 7 |
| RHEL | 6.9 |
| CentOS | 6.9 |
| Fedora | 13 |
| SUSE | 12.1 |
Installing the Driver Dependencies
Run the following commands as root or with sudo to install the necessary dependencies:
- Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install libc6 libstdc++6 zlib1g libgcc1
- RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:
yum install glibc libstdc++ zlib libgcc
Here are the corresponding libraries required by the driver:
| Debian/Ubuntu Package | RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Package | File |
| libc6 | glibc | linux-vdso.1 |
| libc6 | glibc | libm.so.6 |
| libc6 | glibc | librt.so.1 |
| libc6 | glibc | libdl.so.2 |
| libc6 | glibc | libpthread.so.0 |
| libc6 | glibc | libc.so.6 |
| libc6 | glibc | ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 |
| libstdc++6 | libstdc++ | libstdc++.so.6 |
| zlib1g | zlib | libz.so.1 |
| libgcc1 | libgcc | libgcc_s.so.1 |
Installing the Driver
You can use standard package management systems to install the driver.
On Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu, run the following command with root or sudo:
dpkg -i /path/to/driver/setup/MondayODBCDriverforUnix.deb
On systems that support the RPM package format, run the following command with root or sudo:
rpm -ivh /path/to/driver/MondayODBCDriverforUnix.rpm
Licensing the Driver
Run the following commands to license the driver. To activate a trial, omit the <key> input.
cd /opt/cdata/cdata-odbc-driver-for-monday/bin/
sudo ./install-license.sh <key>
Connecting through the Driver Manager
The driver manager loads the driver and passes function calls from the application to the driver. You need to register the driver with the driver manager and you define DSNs in the driver manager's configuration files.
The driver installation registers the driver with the unixODBC driver manager and creates a system DSN. The unixODBC driver manager can be used from Python and from many other applications. Your application may embed another driver manager.
Creating the DSN
See Using unixODBC to install unixODBC and configure DSNs. See Using the DataDirect Driver Manager to create a DSN to connect to OBIEE, Informatica, and SAS.
Connecting to Monday GraphQL API
Connect using either API Token authentication or OAuth authentication
Connecting with an API Token
Connect to driver by specifying the APIToken. Set the AuthScheme to Token and obtain APIToken as follows:
- Log in to your Monday account and navigate to Manage Applications in the left pane.
- Select the application that you would like to create a token for. You may need to create an application first.
- Click the Create token button to generate an APIToken.
OAuth
Alternatively, you can establish a connection Using OAuth Authentication.
Connecting to Monday AuditLog API
To generate the audit log API token, access the admin section of your Monday account, click into the "Security" section and then the "Audit" tab. From there, select on the "Monitor by API" button and copy it.
After retrieving the API token you can connect from the driver by setting the following conenction properties:
- Schema=AuditLog
- AuthScheme=Token
- APIToken=Your audit log API token
- Domain=https://yourdomain.monday.com
Refreshing OAuth Values
The driver can refresh the temporary OAuth access tokens obtained during the browser-based OAuth authentication exchange. By default, the driver saves the encrypted tokens in the odbc.ini file corresponding to the DSN. Access to this odbc.ini file can be restricted in the case of System DSNs.
To enable the automatic token exchange, you can give the driver write access to the system odbc.ini.
Installing Dependencies for OAuth Authentication
The OAuth authentication standard requires the authenticating user to interact with Monday, using a web-browser. If the first OAuth interaction is to be done on the same machine the driver is installed on, for example, a desktop application, the driver needs access to the xdg-open program, which opens the default browser.
To satisfy this dependency, install the corresponding package with your package manager:
| Debian/Ubuntu Package | RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Package | File |
| xdg-utils | xdg-utils | xdg-open |
Set the Driver Encoding
The ODBC drivers need to specify which encoding to use with the ODBC Driver Manager. By default, the CData ODBC Drivers for Unix are configured to use UTF-16 which is compatible with unixODBC, but other Driver Managers may require alternative encoding.
Alternatively, if you are using the ODBC driver from an application that uses the ANSI ODBC API it may be necessary to set the ANSI code page. For example, to import Japanese characters in an ANSI application, you can specify the code page in the config file '/opt/cdata/cdata-odbc-driver-for-monday/lib/cdata.odbc.monday.ini':
[Driver]
AnsiCodePage = 932