Administering IBM Knowledge Catalog
You can perform administrative tasks for IBM Knowledge Catalog, such as exporting audit records, scaling the service, or migrating project assets. Ensure that you have the required permissions to complete tasks.
BaseStandardPremium Unless otherwise noted, the information applies to all editions of IBM® Knowledge Catalog.
Service configuration
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Uploading abbreviation files for use in metadata enrichment | Cluster administrator | Extend the glossary that is used in metadata enrichment to generate display names. PremiumStandard |
| Enable the use of regular expressions for rule-based term assignment | Instance administrator | Allow the use of regular expressions for matching in rules for term assignment |
| Enabling validation of the business start date on CSV import | Instance administrator | Prevent import of artifacts with an explicitly specified start date in the past. |
| Enable queries for total record counts for profiling | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Allow profiling to retrieve the total record count for data assets. |
| Changing the distinct values limit for data segmentation | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Change the maximum number of distinct values that can be retrieved for segmenting column data. |
| Changing the retry limits for data quality rules | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Change the allowed number of retries or the retry interval for data quality rules. |
| Disabling data quality SLA assessments for rules | Instance administrator | Disable data quality SLA assessments for runs of data quality rules |
| Bulk sync for global search | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Synchronize data to be able to search for assets by using global search. |
| Bulk sync relationships for global search | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Synchronize relationship data to be able to use global search for searching relationships. |
| Renewing the Db2 SSL certificate after the Cloud Pak for Data self-signed certificate is updated (IBM Knowledge Catalog) | Instance administrator | Renew the Db2 SSL certificate for IBM Knowledge Catalog. |
| Resync of lineage metadata | Access catalogs user permissionInstance administrator | Resynchronize catalog metadata. |
| Enabling lineage import | Instance administrator | Restart pods after installing or upgrading to enable lineage import. |
| Uploading JDBC drivers for lineage import | Instance administrator | Add data-source specific JDBC drivers for lineage import. |
| Configuring Hive with Kerberos for lineage imports | Instance administrator | Enable lineage import from Hive connections that are configured with Kerberos authentication. |
| Importing a certificate for metadata imports from Cognos Analytics | Instance administrator | Add a certificate to be able to set up secure connections between IBM Knowledge Catalog and Cognos Analytics servers that are outside of your IBM Software Hub instance. |
| Configuring reporting settings for IBM Knowledge Catalog | Instance administrator |
Configure the default reporting settings for your instance of IBM Knowledge Catalog. |
| Setting up a dedicated node for models running on CPU | Cluster administrator | Set up a dedicated worker node for models that are used for generative AI capabilities in IBM Knowledge Catalog and run on CPU. |
Storage configuration
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Disabling SELinux relabeling | Cluster administrator | Configure IBM Software Hub pods to skip SELinux relabeling for all bulk operations if you're using a CSI-based storage type. |
Security
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Exporting IBM Software Hub audit records to a security information and event management solution | Instance administrator | Record user activities for IBM Knowledge Catalog. |
| Audit events for IBM Knowledge Catalog | Instance administrator | List of audit events that are recorded for IBM Knowledge Catalog services. |
Resource management
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Manually scaling resources for services | Instance administrator | Adjust IBM Knowledge Catalog by scaling resources to support high availability or to increase processing capacity. Resources can be scaled based on predefined resource configurations. |
| Automatically scaling resources for services | Not supported | |
| Shutting down and restarting services | Not supported |
Backup and restore
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Backing up and restoring IBM Software Hub | Cluster administrator | Choose the correct method to back up and restore IBM Software Hub. |
Data migration
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Migrating governance artifact | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Export and import governance artifacts within a IBM Software Hub cluster or between different clusters. |
| Migrating catalog assets | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Export and import catalog assets within a IBM Software Hub cluster or between different clusters. |
| Migrating data protection rules | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Export and import data protection rules within a IBM Software Hub cluster or between different clusters. BasePremium |