Configuring your system resources

Before you can import metadata into the metadata repository or associate it with your project, you must locate and define the host computers and the data stores in your organization.

About this task

The metadata repository stores key metadata about objects such as data schemas, tables, and columns. This repository ensures that two distinct objects (such as two tables named Customer in two distinct systems) are not inappropriately linked or overlaid. You create the high-level and logical hierarchy of objects (source objects) to provide an inventory of hardware assets that you can use to access your data. You identify the data sources by defining the locations and access methods to these sources. For example, you define the host computer on which the data source is stored, identify the database system that contains the data source, and set up a connection to that data source.

To configure your system resources, you complete the following tasks:

  1. Configuring a data source name (DSN)
    After you install your suite component, you must create a data source name (DSN) for each source database that you want to use. You then associate the data source with your server.
  2. Defining a host computer
    To import metadata into the metadata repository, you must first define one or more host computers that the data sources are stored on.
  3. Identifying one or more data stores
    After you define a host computer, you identify one or more data stores that are on that host computer. Data stores are the logical containers for differing schemas and directories.
  4. Source objects
    A source object is a hierarchical set of objects that defines the location of data and the method that is used to connect to that data.
Related tasks:
Importing metadata into the metadata repository