Enable the registration of a data source via Edge

Before you can start registering data sources via Edge, you must ensure the feature is enabled in your environment. This topic explains which settings you need to verify.

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

Important You can't edit the service configuration from the Settings page in the latest UI. If you use the latest UI, you can edit the service configuration only in Collibra Console. For more information, go to DGC service configuration settings.

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Open the Services Configuration tab:
    1. On the main toolbar, click Products icon → Cogwheel icon Settings.
      The Settings page opens.
    2. 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.
  2. 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.

    Maximum number of concurrent Edge jobs

    This setting specifies the maximum number of Edge jobs that can run simultaneously to connect to a data source, update a schema list, or synchronize a schema. If the maximum number is reached, subsequent jobs are queued.
    The default value is 10. You can enter a value from 1 to 20.
    This setting applies only to JDBC data sources.

    Maximum number of ingestion rules

    The setting specifies the maximum number of synchronization rules that can be defined per schema.
    The default value is 10. You can enter a value from 10 to 200.
    This setting applies only to JDBC data sources.

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