Post-installation setup for Watson Knowledge Catalog

Installing the patch for version 4.6.4

If you installed or upgraded to version 4.6.4, and if you use offline backup and restore, or Metadata enrichment, then you must install the following patch which fixes issues with offline backup and restore, global search and profiling. Otherwise, it is not needed. You may still install the patch if you plan to use these features in the future.

Required role

To complete this task, you must be an adminstrator of the project (namespace) where you deployed the Watson Knowledge Catalog service.

To install the patch, follow the instructions in Installing the patch for version 4.6.4.

Setting up Watson Knowledge Catalog

Before platform users can work with Watson Knowledge Catalog, you must set up Watson Knowledge Catalog.

Required role

To complete this task, you must the Cloud Pak for Data admin user.

To set up Watson Knowledge Catalog, perform these tasks:

• Set up the default catalog.
• Assign the Administrator user role to one or more users who can complete the tasks to set up Watson Knowledge Catalog. Alternatively, complete those tasks yourself.

Enable the import of governance artifacts

To successfully import any governance artifacts, you must edit the wdp-policy-service deployment file to change the setting of the DPS_USER_DECISION_EVAL_NO_PRUNING flag to false.

Required role

To complete this task, you must be an administrator of the project (namespace) where you deployed the Watson Knowledge Catalog service.

To change the setting, complete the following steps:

1. Log into the cluster:

   oc login <OpenShift_URL>:port
   

2. Set the DPS_USER_DECISION_EVAL_NO_PRUNING environment variable to false. Then, wait for the pods to become ready.

   oc patch wkc wkc-cr --type merge --patch '{"spec": {
   "DPS_USER_DECISION_EVAL_NO_PRUNING": "false"
   }}'
   

Enable predefined governance artifacts

You must enable predefined data classes and data rule definitions by updating the solr repository only if you have legacy features for Watson Knowledge Catalog enabled.
If you do not have legacy features enabled and have the Watson Knowledge Catalog core functionality enabled instead, you do not need to enable the predefined data classes and data rule definitions.

Required role

To complete this task, you must be an administrator of the project (namespace) where you deployed the Watson Knowledge Catalog service.

To update the solr repository, enter the following URL in your web browser:

https://<cpd_cluster_host>/ibm/iis/common-utils/rest/v1/app/reindex?batchSize=100&solrBatchSize=100&assetType=Information%20Analyzer%20Project

Replace cpd_cluster_host with the hostname or IP address of the Cloud Pak for Data cluster.