Profile and classify metadata via Edge

You start the profiling and classification process via the Configuration tab page on a Database asset page.

Note Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud only has access to synchronized metadata, anonymized profiling results and classification suggestions, but not to actual data from your data source.

Prerequisites

You have created and installed an Edge site.
Your Edge site has a global role with the following global permissions:
- Data Catalog
- Register Profiling Information
Your Edge site has a JDBC profiling capability.
You have enabled data source registration via Edge.
You have enabled profiling and classification via Edge.
You have registered a data source via Edge.
You have synchronized one or more schemas of a registered database.

Steps

Manually profile and classify
Automatically profile and classify

Open the Database asset page of a registered database.
In the tab pane, click Services Configuration.
Click the Profiling and Classification tab.
On the Profiling and Classification tab page, click Run profiling and classification.

Data Catalog triggers the Edge site to start a profiling and classification job.

Depending on your profiling options, the Edge site profiles and classifies based on all synchronized metadata or on a sample.

Open the Database asset page of a registered database.
In the tab pane, click Services Configuration.
Click the Profiling and Classification tab.
In the Profiling options section, click Edit.
Select Automatically run when a metadata extraction is synchronized.
Synchronize one or more schemas.

When the schema is synchronized, Data Catalog automatically triggers the Edge site to start a profiling and classification job.

What's next?

The Edge site starts the profiling and classification process and sends the results to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud. You can see the profiling and classification job in the list of activities. Click the Result button to open the data profiling results.