Managing applications
An application is a program that interfaces with IBM Spectrum® Discover and can access the source storage. There are many use cases for application, including data content inspection for enriching metadata, data movement or migration, data scrubbing or sanitation, and more. Data is identified by IBM Spectrum Discover by policy filter and passed to the application as pointers through a messaging queue. Then, the application performs whatever work is appropriate on the source data and returns a completion status back to IBM Spectrum Discover, which might or might not include enriched metadata for the records. If it does include enriched metadata, IBM Spectrum Discover catalogs that metadata and makes it immediately searchable.
Permissions
- Data Administrator
- Create (register), update, delete (unregister), and view the applications.
- Data User
- View the applications created by a Data Administrator.
- Security Administrator
- Cannot create, modify, view, or delete any application.
Management
Applications might be viewed and deleted by navigating to . You can define an application when you are creating a new DEEP-INSPECT policy. In addition, you can add Parameters for an application during the process of creating a DEEP-INSPECT policy. For more information, see Adding deep-inspection policy parameters .
- Application
- The name of the application.
- Parameters
- The parameters that were assigned to the application when the policy was created.
- Action ID
- AUTOTAG or deepinspect - the policy type that the application is assigned to.
For more information, see Application management by using APIs.