Administering watsonx.data integration

You can perform administrative tasks for watsonx.data integration, such as exporting audit records, scaling the service, or migrating project assets. Ensure that you have the required permissions to complete tasks.

Security

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Exporting IBM® Software Hub audit records to a security information and event management solution Instance administrator Record user activities for watsonx.data integration.
Audit events for watsonx.data™ integration Instance administrator List of audit events that are recorded for IBM watsonx.data integration services.

Resource management

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Manually scaling resources for services Instance administrator Adjust Data Replication, DataStage, or Unstructured Data Integration 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 DataStage only. 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 DataStage or Unstructured Data Integration to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again.

Backup and restore

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Backing up and restoring IBM Software Hub Cluster administrator Choose the correct method to back up and restore IBM Software Hub.