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KeePassX DB can organize entries in logical groups, using under groups and sub-groups.
One can organize Credential Store in groups, e.g. Internal-Server, External-Server etc, user . User is free to choose his own organization scheme.

  • Create new top group i.e. sos
  • Create new sub group i.e. server
  • Create new entry wilm wilma.sos for settings
    • Title : will            : Will be used as key in the hierarchy to access the credentials.
    • Username  : field Field is used to specify username , user name used for file transfer, i.e. FTP/SFTP user name
    • Password   : password Password field is used to specify password, user can use the internal  KeePassX's password generation mechanism feature to specify strong passwords or can provide already existing password.
    • Comment   : can Can contain extra parameters for JADE along with credentials, all/any JADE parameter can be specified in Comment section.
    • Expires       : expiry date for the entryExpiry date is used to enforce Password/SSHkey expiration policy, user can define its own expiry period i.e. 90 days, or check option Never. JADE will raise an error if a KeePassX DB entry is not validexpired.
    • Attachment : can Can have any private key file used during transfer, i.e. public keyfor file transfer

Create Credential Store entry for SFTP server

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Set-up global Credential Store profile

Define an global profile having all the parameters concerning Credential Store. JADE can reuse any profile defined in same jade_settings.ini file.
It's recommended to create such global fragments and reuse them in profiles.
Alternatively a user can define multiple KeePassX DB files, e.g. Test, Integration, Production and create corresponding profiles for the different environments.

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Set-up JADE profile for FTP

In this example we are referring/including Credential store settings from global KeePassX database profile Keepass_DataBase_WithPassword .
JADE then will open the KeePassX DB and refer the entry sos/server/wilma.sos, we have already defined this settings in the KeePassX DB:

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