Integrating IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog with IBM Data Risk Manager

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Configure IBM Data Risk Manager to communicate with IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog for importing metadata into IBM Data Risk Manager.

About this task

The Business Context Modeler (BCM) component of IBM Data Risk Manager provides Enterprise Integration Wizard to integrate IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog with IBM Data Risk Manager.

Kafka is a message queue to get live notifications from IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog and IBM Data Risk Manager. In this queue, IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is the Producer and IBM Data Risk Manager is the Consumer. You can configure IBM Data Risk Manager to subscribe to the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog topics and receive notifications regularly for processing the messages.

Procedure

  1. Log in to IBM Data Risk Manager Application Suite with administrator privileges.
  2. Click the application menu icon Menu icon.
  3. Go to Business Context Modeler > Enterprise Integration Wizard > Integration > Adapter Configuration.
  4. In the Adapter Configuration section, click the Add Integration Adapter icon Add integration adapter icon.
  5. Select IBM Information Governance Catalog from the list.
  6. To add an IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog instance, select IBM Information Governance Catalog from the Adapter Configuration list.
  7. In the Integration Instances section, click the Add Instance icon Add instance icon.
  8. Set the following options.
    Option Description
    Name Specify a name for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog instance.
    URL Specify the URL to access IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, for example https://<information governance catalog application-IP/host name:Port>.
    Microservice Instance Select the micro service instance that is needed for the integration.
    Versions of IGC Select a IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog version for importing metadata.
    User Name Specify the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog user name with administrator role.
    Password Specify the password for the user name.
  9. To configure IBM Data Risk Manager to subscribe to the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog topics and receive notifications regularly for processing messages, click Kafka Configuration, and then specify the configuration information.
    Option Description
    Bootstrap Server Specify the host or port details to use for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka server.
    IGC Topic Specify the name of the Kafka topic where messages are published.
    Group ID Specify the group ID to publish messages when multiple Kafka consumer nodes are used.
    User Name Specify the user name to authenticate with the Kafka server.
    Password Specify the password for the user name.
    Mark for Delete Select to delete or remove the Kafka server configuration.
  10. Click Save to save the configuration details.

What to do next

For the adapter instance that you created, you can test the connectivity. Select the instance from the Integration Instances list, and then click Test Connection to test whether the communication between IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog instance and IBM Data Risk Manager server is successful.