Preparing to run the Informatica CDI 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 (for on-premise runs only) 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 (for on-premise runs only) | |
Docker | Click here to get Docker. |
data.world specific objects (for both cloud and on-premise runs) | |
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. |
Preparing Informatica CDI for collectors
Setting up Informatica CDI instance
Make sure that the CDI instance that the collector will harvest metadata from has an active REST API license feature.
To learn how to verify which licenses are available to your organization, refer to the informatica CDI documentation.
To learn more about managing licenses and features, refer to the Informatica Administrator guide.
Setting up authentication
To connect the collector to Cloud Data Integration, the user must have at least the Designer role.
To set up the authentication:
Assign the Designer role to the user through the Administrator service in the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS).
To learn more about user and role management, refer to the Informatica Cloud User Groups and Roles page.