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Preparing to run the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) collector

Setting up 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

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Java Runtime Environment

OpenJDK 17 is supported and available here.

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.



Setting up SSRS

Configuring Authentication

The collector harvests from SSRS using Basic Authentication:

  1. Follow the instructions in the Microsoft documentation to set up basic authentication on your SSRS environment.

  2. Create a user that the collector will use for authentication and harvesting of SSRS objects.

  3. Apply the Browser role to the user you just created.

These authentication details are used while configuring the CLI for the collector.