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PUBLIC SAP Information Steward Document Version: 4.2 Support Package 12 (14.2.12.0) – 2019-05-23 Administrator Guide company. All rights reserved. All rights company. affiliate THE BEST RUN 2019 SAP SE or an SAP SE or an SAP SAP 2019 © Content 1 Welcome.................................................................. 9 2 Accessing Information Steward for administrative tasks............................. 10 3 Architecture............................................................... 11 3.1 Information Steward architecture overview.......................................... 11 Servers and services........................................................13 SAP BusinessObjects BI platform.............................................. 13 SAP BI platform components usage.............................................14 SAP Data Services components usage...........................................16 Web application server......................................................17 Services................................................................19 Metadata integrators.......................................................23 3.2 Distributed architecture....................................................... 24 Component communication channels...........................................25 Port assignments......................................................... 26 DSN-less and TNS-less connections............................................26 3.3 SAP integration............................................................. 27 3.4 Information workflows........................................................ 28 Adding a table to a Data Insight project..........................................29 Profiling data ............................................................29 Scheduling and running a Metadata Management integrator source......................30 Creating a custom cleansing package with Cleansing Package Builder....................30 Creating a data cleansing solution in Data Cleansing Advisor...........................31 4 Securing SAP Information Steward............................................. 33 4.1 Security Overview............................................................33 4.2 Enterprise security...........................................................33 Data protection and privacy..................................................34 Securing user data for Information Steward.......................................34 Storage of sensitive information...............................................35 Configuring Information Steward for SSL.........................................36 Reverse proxy servers......................................................40 5 Information Steward configuration settings.......................................41 5.1 Configuring Information Steward settings...........................................41 5.2 Information Steward settings option descriptions..................................... 42 6 Users and Groups Management................................................49 Administrator Guide 2 PUBLIC Content 6.1 Users and Groups overview.....................................................49 6.2 Information Steward pre-defined users and groups....................................49 6.3 Managing users in Information Steward.............................................51 Creating users for Information Steward.......................................... 51 Adding users and user groups to Information Steward groups..........................52 Denying access...........................................................53 Deleting users in Information Steward...........................................54 Setting user email address for notifications.......................................54 6.4 User rights in Data Insight......................................................55 Data Insight predefined user groups............................................ 56 Type-specific rights for Data Insight objects .......................................57 Type-specific rights for source or failed data connections............................. 63 Customizing rights on Data Insight objects....................................... 64 6.5 User rights in Metadata Management..............................................68 Metadata Management pre-defined user groups....................................69 Type-specific rights for Metadata Management objects...............................70 Assigning users to specific Metadata Management objects............................73 6.6 User rights in Metapedia.......................................................75 Metapedia pre-defined user groups.............................................75 Type-specific rights for Metapedia objects ........................................76 Assigning users to specific Metapedia objects .....................................78 6.7 User rights in Cleansing Package Builder............................................79 Group rights for cleansing packages............................................80 6.8 User rights for Information Steward administrative tasks ................................80 Viewing and editing repository information........................................81 6.9 User rights in Match Review.....................................................82 Match Review pre-defined user groups.......................................... 82 Type-specific rights for Match Review...........................................83 7 Repository Management......................................................85 7.1 Repository management overview................................................85 7.2 Viewing and editing repository information..........................................85 Viewing and editing Data Cleansing Advisor repository information...................... 85 7.3 Enabling Windows authentication for Microsoft SQL Server repositories..................... 86 7.4 Backing up your repository..................................................... 87 7.5 Repository utility overview......................................................87 Creating a new repository....................................................88 Recovering the repository....................................................90 Upgrading the repository.................................................... 91 Completing the repository recovery.............................................93 Repository utility parameters.................................................93 Administrator Guide Content PUBLIC 3 8 Data Insight Administration...................................................97 8.1 Administration overview for Data Insight............................................97 8.2 Data Insight performance settings................................................98 8.3 Data Insight Connections...................................................... 99 Defining a Data Insight connection to a database.................................. 100 Defining a Data Insight connection to an application................................ 122 Execute options for ABAP program generation for SAP tables ......................... 127 Defining a Data Insight connection to a file.......................................128 Displaying and editing Data Insight connection parameters...........................129 Deleting a Data Insight connection.............................................130 Setting connection type and permissions to access failed data.........................131 8.4 Data Insight projects.........................................................132 Creating a project.........................................................132 Editing a project description................................................. 133 Enterprise project.........................................................134 Deleting a project.........................................................134 8.5 Data Insight tasks...........................................................134 Scheduling a task in the CMC................................................ 135 Export tasks for external scheduler............................................ 137 Recurrence options........................................................147 Notification for task completion...............................................149 Configuring the Job Server for e-mail notifications................................. 150 Configuring notification when scheduling a task....................................151 Rule threshold notification.................................................. 153 Monitoring a task.........................................................154 Pausing and resuming a schedule............................................. 156 Deleting failed data for a failed rule task.........................................157 Common runtime parameters for Information Steward..............................158 9 Metadata Management Administration..........................................160 9.1 Administration overview for Metadata Management .................................. 160 9.2 Configure sources for metadata integrators.........................................160 Configuring sources for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Metadata Integrator..............161 Configuring sources for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Metadata Integrator ..........164 Configuring sources for SAP Data Services Metadata Integrator ........................165 Configuring sources for SAP ERP Central Component integrator........................167 Configuring sources for the Hadoop Metadata Integrator.............................168