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PUBLIC SAP Information Steward Document Version: 4.2 Support Package 7 Patch 1 (14.2.7.1) – 2017-01-24 Administrator Guide Content 1 Accessing Information Steward for administrative tasks................................ 9 2 Architecture................................................................. 10 2.1 Architecture overview........................................................... 10 Servers and services..........................................................12 Information Steward architecture overview..........................................12 Services...................................................................17 Metadata integrators.........................................................20 2.2 Distributed architecture..........................................................22 Component communication channels............................................. 22 Port assignments............................................................22 DSN-less and TNS-less connections...............................................23 2.3 SAP integration................................................................24 2.4 Information workflows...........................................................24 Adding a table to a Data Insight project.............................................25 Profiling data ...............................................................25 Scheduling and running a Metadata Management integrator source........................26 Creating a custom cleansing package with Cleansing Package Builder.......................26 Creating a data cleansing solution in Data Cleansing Advisor............................. 27 3 Securing SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward..................................29 3.1 Security Overview..............................................................29 3.2 Enterprise security............................................................. 29 Securing user data for Information Steward.........................................30 Storage of sensitive information..................................................31 Configuring Information Steward for SSL........................................... 31 Reverse proxy servers.........................................................35 4 Users and Groups Management...................................................36 4.1 Users and Groups overview....................................................... 36 4.2 Information Steward pre-defined users and groups...................................... 36 4.3 Managing users in Information Steward...............................................38 Creating users for Information Steward............................................38 Adding users and user groups to Information Steward groups............................ 39 Denying access.............................................................40 Setting user email address for notifications......................................... 40 4.4 User rights in Data Insight.........................................................41 Data Insight pre-defined user groups..............................................42 Administrator Guide 2 PUBLIC Content Type-specific rights for Data Insight objects .........................................43 Customizing rights on Data Insight objects..........................................49 4.5 User rights in Metadata Management................................................54 Metadata Management pre-defined user groups......................................55 Type-specific rights for Metadata Management objects.................................55 Assigning users to specific Metadata Management objects.............................. 59 4.6 User rights in Metapedia......................................................... 60 Metapedia pre-defined user groups............................................... 61 Type-specific rights for Metapedia objects ..........................................61 Assigning users to specific Metapedia objects ....................................... 63 4.7 User rights in Cleansing Package Builder..............................................64 Group rights for cleansing packages...............................................65 4.8 User rights for Information Steward administrative tasks ..................................65 Viewing and editing repository information..........................................66 User rights in Match Review.....................................................67 5 Repository Management........................................................ 71 5.1 Repository management overview...................................................71 5.2 Viewing and editing repository information.............................................71 Viewing and editing Data Cleansing Advisor repository information.........................71 5.3 Enabling Windows authentication for Microsoft SQL Server repositories........................72 5.4 Backing up your repository........................................................73 5.5 Repository utility overview........................................................73 Creating a new repository......................................................74 Recovering the repository......................................................76 Upgrading the repository.......................................................77 Completing the repository recovery...............................................79 Repository utility parameters....................................................79 6 Data Insight Administration..................................................... 82 6.1 Administration overview for Data Insight..............................................82 6.2 Data Insight Connections.........................................................83 Defining a Data Insight connection to a database......................................84 Defining a Data Insight connection to an application...................................104 Execute options for ABAP program generation for SAP tables ...........................109 Defining a Data Insight connection to a file..........................................110 Displaying and editing Data Insight connection parameters..............................111 Deleting a Data Insight connection................................................111 6.3 Data Insight projects............................................................112 Creating a project........................................................... 112 Editing a project description....................................................113 Enterprise project...........................................................114 Administrator Guide Content PUBLIC 3 Deleting a project........................................................... 114 6.4 Data Insight tasks..............................................................114 Scheduling a task........................................................... 114 Export tasks for external scheduler...............................................115 Recurrence options..........................................................126 Configuring for task completion notification ........................................127 Rule threshold notification.....................................................129 Monitoring a task........................................................... 130 Pausing and resuming a schedule................................................131 Deleting failed data for a failed rule task........................................... 132 Common runtime parameters for Information Steward................................ 132 6.5 Configuration settings.......................................................... 133 Information Steward settings...................................................134 Configuring Information Steward settings..........................................137 7 Metadata Management Administration............................................139 7.1 Administration overview for Metadata Management .....................................139 7.2 Configuring sources for metadata integrators..........................................139 Configuring sources for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Metadata Integrator................140 Configuring sources for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Metadata Integrator ............143 Configuring sources for SAP Data Services Metadata Integrator ..........................144 Configuring sources for SAP ERP Central Component integrator..........................146 Configuring sources for the Hadoop Metadata Integrator...............................147 Configuring sources for SAP HANA integrator.......................................148 Configuring sources for SAP Sybase PowerDesigner metadata integrator...................149 Configuring sources for Common Warehouse Model (CWM) Metadata Integrator..............152 Configuring sources for SAP Data Federator Metadata Integrator .........................154 Configuring sources for Meta Integration Metadata Bridge Metadata Integrator ...............155 Configuring sources for Relational Database System Metadata Integrator...................156 Configuring sources for Excel Metadata Integrator....................................161 7.3 Managing integrator sources and instances...........................................162 Viewing and editing an integrator source .......................................... 163 Deleting an integrator source .................................................. 164 Changing limits ...........................................................

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