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With this feature you can configure an existing database connection or webservice connection from connection.php for usage in user interface.
system configuration->connections
Name of a valid database connection or webservice connection defined in connection.php.
Description of this connection. This description is used only in the admin pages. In the grid pages the description from connections.php is used.
A valid database connection from which messages will be retrieved. If you don't want to save messages/display messages at all then leave this column empty.
If you want to save messages in a database, a table etx_message in the given structur must exist in the database where this connection points to.
Choose type of this connection from pulldown list.