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Preparing to run the Redshift collector

Setting up pre-requisites for running the collectors

Make sure that the machine from where you are running the collector meets the following hardware and software requirements.

Table 1.

Item

Requirement

Hardware (for on-premise runs only)

RAM

8 GB

CPU

2 Ghz processor

Software (for on-premise runs only)

Docker

Click here to get Docker.

JDBC Driver

The computer should have the appropriate JDBC driver on its file system.

data.world specific objects (for both cloud and on-premise runs)

Dataset

You must have a ddw-catalogs (or other) dataset set up to hold your catalog files when you are done running the collector.

If you are using Catalog Toolkit , follow these instructions to prepare the datasets for collectors.



Preparing Redshift for collectors

Important

This task is only required for on-premise run of collectors.

  • Make sure you download the appropriate JDBC driver for Redshift on the machine from where you will run the collector.