The logon screen differs in that the user name and password do not have to be that of a valid metadata repository. This user name/password combination can be any valid database user. There is an additional entry required being Meta database. This is the schema of the metadata repository that you wish to connect to in terms of scheduler maintenance.

For SQL Server the Meta database must be set to dbo.

For Oracle data warehouses the 'Meta database' owner must have made the following grants to the specified user before the scheduler maintenance utility can be used.