Was looking at using SQL Developer to setup SSH tunneling for the hosts that I do not have port 1521 open but have ssh access to and thatjeffsmith.com explains it quite well showing how to add it directly in the connection tab itself.
However with the version that I'm using being 4.1.1.19, couldn't find the 'ssh' tab in the 'advanced' section of the add new connection window so spent sometime working out 'how to'...and here's how I've done it...hope that's helpful for someone out there looking for some notes on this...
Click on View --->SSH menu item...and that opens the below work area under connections list...
Right click on SSH Hosts and click on "New SSH Host"
Host in the top section is the remote host (either hostname or ip address) and you can use private key here if that's what you use to connect...However one thing to note here is that the private key should be in openssh format and I had mine in putty format...so used puttykeygen to convert it into openssh format as below...
Open your private key in PuTTYGen
Top menu “Conversions”->”Export OpenSSH key”.
Save the new OpenSSH key when prompted.
Once above details are in place, save the above connection by clicking 'ok' and then right-click and 'connect' to establish the tunnel.
Now setup the database connection as below...good thing with this is the SSH-HOST connection we have setup earlier can be shared by a number of database connections, say if you have many database's on the host or if you want to setup separate connections for different database users etc.
