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Preparing to run the SAP HANA collector

Pre-requisites for running the collector

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

Table 1.

Item

Requirement

Hardware

RAM

8 GB

CPU

2 Ghz processor

Software

Docker

Click here to get Docker.

Driver

Contact data.world support team to obtain the SAP HANA driver.

data.world specific objects

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.

Network connection

Allowlist IPs and domains

Follow these instructions to configure your network.



Setting up authentication for SAP HANA

You need an account with a role that has SELECT privileges on the resources that you want the collector to harvest metadata from. See SAP HANA Database Roles.

You can set up a role with either of the following privileges:

  • System privileges (CATALOG READ)

  • Object privileges (SELECT METADATA)