Prepare the lineage harvester configuration file for MicroStrategy

You have to prepare a configuration file before you run the lineage harvester. The lineage harvester collects your MicroStrategy metadata and sends it to the Collibra Data Lineage server, where it is processed and analyzed. Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud then imports the MicroStrategy assets and relations to Data Catalog.

Prerequisites

You have the newest lineage harvester.
You have a global role that has the Manage all resources global permission.
You have a global role with the Catalog global permission, for example Catalog Author.
You have a global role with the Technical lineage global permission.
You have a global role with the Data Stewardship Manager global permission.
You have a global role with the Data Stewardship Manager global permission.
You have created a BI Catalog domain in which you want to ingest the MicroStrategy assets.
You have a resource role with the following resource permission on the community level in which you created the BI Data Catalog domain:
- Asset: add
- Attribute: add
- Domain: add
- Attachment: add
You have downloaded the lineage harvester and you have the necessary system requirements to run it.

Steps

Run the following command line to start the lineage harvester:
- Windows: .\bin\lineage-harvester.bat
- For other operating systems: chmod +x bin/lineage-harvester and then bin/lineage-harvester
An empty configuration file is created in the config folder.

Open the lineage-harvester.conf file and enter the values for each property.

Properties	Description
general	This section describes the connection information between the lineage harvester and Data Catalog.
catalog	This section contains information that is necessary to connect to Data Catalog.
url	The URL of your Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud environment. Note You can only enter the public URL of your Collibra DGC environment. Other URLs will not be accepted.
username	The username that you use to sign in to Collibra.
sources	This section contains all MicroStrategy connection properties.
type	The kind of data source. In this case, the value has to be `MicroStrategy`.
collibraSystemName	This property is deprecated for MicroStrategy integration. The lineage harvester does not take into account any value that you enter here.
id	The unique ID of your MicroStrategy metadata. For example, `my_microstrategy`. Tip This value can be anything as long as it is unique and human readable. The ID identifies the batch of MicroStrategy metadata on the Collibra Data Lineage server.
domainId	The unique reference ID of the domain in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud in which you want to ingest the MicroStrategy assets.
username	The username that you use to sign in to MicroStrategy.
hostname	The endpoint that you use to access the PostgreSQL repository or remote data source, depending on where you installed the lineage harvester. For example `remote.postgres.com`.
port	The port number.
databaseName	Optionally, the name of your database. For example `poc_metadata`.

Save the configuration file.
Start the lineage harvester again in the console and run the following command:
- for Windows: .\bin\lineage-harvester.bat full-sync
- for other operating systems: ./bin/lineage-harvester full-sync
When prompted, enter the password or client secret to connect to your Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud and MicroStrategy environment.
The passwords are encrypted and stored in /config/pwd.conf

Example

The following example shows a configuration file for MicroStrategy.

{
 "general": {
  "catalog": {
   "url": "https://<organization>.collibra.com",
   "userName": "<your-collibra-username>"
  },
  "useCollibraSystemName": false
 },
 "sources": {
  "type": "Microstrategy",
  "id": "microstrategy-batch",
  "collibraSystemName": "system-name",
  "domainId": "<domain-resource-id>",
  "username": "mstr",
  "hostname": "remote.postgres.com",
  "port": 5432,
  "databaseName": "poc_metadata"
 }
}