Redis Desktop Manager

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After you've installed Redis Desktop Manager, the first thing you need to do in order to get going is to create a connection to your Redis server. On the main window, press the button labelled Connect to Redis Server.

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Connect to a local or public redis-server

On the first tab (Connection Settings), put in general information regarding the connection that you are creating.

  • Name - the name of new connection (example: my_local_redis)
  • Host - redis-server host (example: localhost)
  • Port - redis-server port (example: 6379)
  • Auth - redis-server authentication password (if any) (http://redis.io/commands/AUTH)

Redis Desktop Manager怎么用 1、如何开始使用关系数据库管理？ 在你安装在桌面管理器中，首先需要做的是创建一个到Redis服务器的连接。在主窗口上，按下标签为连接到再发行服务器。 2、连接到本地或公共转播服务器？.

Connect to a public redis-server with SSL

If you want to connect to a redis-server instance with SSL you need to enable SSL on the second tab and provide a public key in PEM format. Instructions for certain cloud services are below:

Windows Azure Redis Cache

  1. Create a connection with all requested information.
  2. Make sure that the 'Use SSL Protocol' checkbox is enabled.
  3. Your Azure Redis connection is ready to use.

Redis Labs

To connect to a Redis Labs instance with SSL/TLS encryption, follow the steps below:

  1. Make sure that SSL is enabled for your Redis instance in the Redis Labs dashboard.
  2. Download and unzip garantia_credentials.zip from the Redis Labs dashboard.
  3. Select garantia_user.crt in the 'Public key' field.
  4. Select garantia_user_private.key in the 'Private key' field.
  5. Select garantia_ca.pem in the 'Authority' field.

Connect to private redis-server via SSH tunnel

Basic SSH tunneling

SSH tab is supposed to allow you to use a SSH tunnel. It's useful if your redis-server is not publicly accessible.To use a SSH tunnel select checkbox 'Use SSH Tunnel'. There are different security options; you can use a plain password or OpenSSH private key.

for Windows users:

Your private key must be in .pem format.

Advanced SSH tunneling

If you need advanced SSH tunneling you should setup a SSH tunnel manually and connect via localhost:

How to connect to Redis ElastiCache through EC2

Follow instructions from this blog post

How to connect to Redis ElastiCache with In-Transit Encryption through EC2

Using RedisDesktopManager >=0.9.9

Click on 'Enable TLS-over-SSH' in the the SSH connection settings and follow instructions from section How to connect to Redis ElastiCache through EC2

Using RedisDesktopManager <0.9.9

Follow instructions from this documentation section to setup stunnel on an EC2 instance

After that connect to your Redis ElastiCache through EC2.

Connect to a UNIX socket

Redis Desktop Manager doesn't support UNIX sockets directly, but you can use redirecting of the local socket to the UNIX domain socket, for instance with socat:

Advanced connection settings

The Advanced settings tab allows you to customise the namespace separator and other advanced settings.

Next steps

Now you can test a connection or create a connection right away.

Redis Desktop Manager

Congratulations, you've successfully connected to your Redis Server. You should see something similar to what we show above.

Redis Gui

Click on the connection and expand keys. By clicking the right button, you can see console menu and manage your connection from there.