Enable the registration of a data source via Edge

You can enable Edge to register a data source. When you register a data source via Edge, an Edge site ingests data into Data Catalog instead of Jobserver.

Depending on your environment, follow this procedure either in the Services Configuration section of the Collibra settings or in Collibra Console:

Collibra Console Collibra Settings

Prerequisites

You have the ADMIN or SUPER role in Collibra Console.

You have a global role that has the System administration global permission.

The Services Configuration tab is available in the Collibra settings.

Steps

Open the Services Configuration page.
1. On the main menu, click , and then click Settings.
  The Settings page opens.
2. In the tab pane, click Services Configuration.
3. Click Edit configuration.
Open the DGC service settings for editing:
1. Open Collibra Console.
  Collibra Console opens with the Infrastructure page.
2. In the tab pane, expand an environment to show its services.
3. In the tab pane, click the Data Governance Center service of that environment.
4. Click Configuration.
5. Click Edit configuration.

In the Register data source section, enter the required information:

Setting	Description
Database registration via Edge	An option to enable database registration via Edge. True: Register a data source via Edge. False: Register a data source via Jobserver only. Note Enabling data source registration via Edge does not prevent you from registering a data source via Jobserver as well.
Source Tags Synchronization via Edge (Beta)	An option to register and synchronize the tags on individual columns and tables in the data source during the data source registration via Edge. This means the tags become available and searchable in Data Catalog and can be used in business or policy processes and in workflows. Note Currently, you can only synchronize source tags from Snowflake. True: The Include Source Tags option becomes available when you define the rules for the synchronization of a data source via Edge. If you include the source tags, the tags defined on the assets in the data source are registered and available from the Schema, Table, Database View, and Column assets in the Source Tags attribute. False: Source tags are not registered in Data Catalog.

Setting

Description

Database registration via Edge

An option to enable database registration via Edge.

True: Register a data source via Edge.
False: Register a data source via Jobserver only.

Note Enabling data source registration via Edge does not prevent you from registering a data source via Jobserver as well.

Source Tags Synchronization via Edge (Beta)

An option to register and synchronize the tags on individual columns and tables in the data source during the data source registration via Edge. This means the tags become available and searchable in Data Catalog and can be used in business or policy processes and in workflows.

Note Currently, you can only synchronize source tags from Snowflake.

True: The Include Source Tags option becomes available when you define the rules for the synchronization of a data source via Edge. If you include the source tags, the tags defined on the assets in the data source are registered and available from the Schema, Table, Database View, and Column assets in the Source Tags attribute.
False: Source tags are not registered in Data Catalog.

Click Save all.
Restart the environment to apply your changes. See Stop an environment and Start an environment.