This topic describes how to set up Protect and connect it to your data source.
Steps
- Contact Collibra support or your representative to enable Protect on your Collibra environment.
- Ensure that the Protect global roles and global permissions are correctly set.
- Download the JDBC driver from Collibra Marketplace.
- Create a JDBC connection from your Edge site to your data source.
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
When creating the connection:
- In the Connection provider field, select Generic JDBC connection.
- In the Connection properties section, set the value of the Other connection property to SupportNativeDataType=True.
When creating the connection, in the Connection provider field, select Username/Password JDBC connection.
- Add the Catalog JDBC ingestion capability to the Edge site.
Tip
When adding the capability:
- In the Capability template field, select Catalog JDBC Ingestion.
- In the JDBC Connection field, select the connection that you created in Step 4.
- The following image shows an ingested database.
The Data Source Type attribute is added to the database asset only after the Catalog JDBC ingestion process is complete.
- Register the data source.
- Create a connection from the Edge site to the data source.
- Add the required Protect capability to the Edge site.
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
When adding the capability:
- In the Capability template field, select Collibra Protect for Google BigQuery.
- In the Connection field, select the connection that you created in Step 7.
When adding the capability:
- In the Capability template field, select Collibra Protect for Snowflake.
- In the Connection field, select the connection that you created in Step 7.
Protect is set up. On the main menu, if you click 
, Protect is shown.