Preparing to run the Power BI Report Server collector
Important
This collector is available in Private Preview. If you would like access to this collector, please contact your Customer Success Director.
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.
Item | Requirement |
|---|---|
Hardware Note: The following specs are based upon running one collector process at a time. Please adjust the hardware if you are running multiple collectors at the same time. | |
RAM | 8 GB |
CPU | 2 Ghz processor |
Software | |
Docker | Click here to get Docker. |
data.world specific objects | |
Dataset | You must have a ddw-catalogs 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. |
Setting up authentication for cataloging Power BI Report Server
The collector harvests from PBIRS using username and password authentication. To configure the authentication, do the following:
Follow the instructions in the Microsoft documentation to set up basic authentication on your PBIRS environment.
Create a user that the collector will use for authentication and harvesting of PBIRS objects.
Apply the Browser role to the user you just created.