Administering watsonx.data intelligence
You can perform administrative tasks for watsonx.data
intelligence, such as exporting audit
records, scaling the service, or migrating project assets. Ensure that you have the required
permissions to complete tasks.
License usage
To check your resource consumption, use License Service. For more information, see Tracking and reporting use against license terms.
Service configuration
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Roles and permissions | Instance administrator | Add users and assign the appropriate roles and permissions that they need to work with data products with watsonx.data intelligence. |
| Uploading abbreviation files for use in metadata enrichment | Cluster administrator | Extend the glossary that is used in metadata enrichment to generate display names. |
| 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 the use of regular expressions for rule-based term assignment | Instance administrator | Allow the use of regular expressions for matching in rules for tem assignment |
| Enable queries for total record counts for profiling | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Allow profiling to retrieve the total record count for data assets. |
| Migrating profiling results after upgrade | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Migrate profiling results to a PostgreSQL database after upgrading to IBM® Software Hub5.2.x. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Instance administrator | Renew the Db2 SSL certificate for watsonx.data intelligence. |
| Resync of lineage metadata | Access catalogs user permission Instance administrator |
Resynchronize catalog metadata. |
| Configuring reporting settings | Instance administrator |
Configure the default reporting settings for your instance of watsonx.data intelligence. |
| 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 watsonx.data intelligence. |
| Audit events for watsonx.data intelligence | Instance administrator | List of audit events that are recorded for watsonx.data intelligence services. |
Resource management
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Manually scaling resources for services | Instance administrator | Adjust watsonx.data intelligence 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 | Instance administrator | Enable autoscaling with the OpenShift® Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA). The HPA changes the resource allocation of services by increasing or decreasing the number of pods in response to CPU or memory consumption. |
| Shutting down and restarting services | Instance administrator | Manually shut down watsonx.data intelligence to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again. |
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 watsonx.data™ intelligence cluster or between different clusters. |
| Migrating catalog assets | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Export and import catalog assets within a watsonx.data intelligence cluster or between different clusters. |
| Migrating data protection rules | Cluster administrator or Instance administrator |
Export and import data protection rules within a watsonx.data intelligence cluster or between different clusters. |
| Migrating data lineage | Cluster administratorInstance administrator |
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