If you have followed previous tutorials, in your Virtual DataPort you will have something similar to this:
The Data Catalog is a software distributed as a web application included as part of the Denodo 8.0 that offers data analysts, business users and application developers searching and browsing capability of data and metadata in a business friendly manner for self-service exploration and analytics.
For starting this web tool, you have to open the Denodo Platform Control Center, and start the Data Catalog. Once it changes the status to "Running", click the Data Catalog link to open the Web tool (by default, https://127.0.0.1:9090/denodo-data-catalog).
Now login to the Data Catalog using the standard login details (admin
/admin
):
The first time you login to the Data Catalog, you will notice the Synchronize Metadata
popup window. This needs to be run when you open the Data Catalog for the
first time, in order to ensure that the Data Catalog reflects the latest state of the Denodo 8.0 server you are connected.
Run the VDP Synchronization as follows:
Synchronize the metadata now
link.Continue
on each Synchronization step.Our first example is from the Data Catalog home screen.
Let's use the scenario of the Business Analyst to explore a simple use case, by searching for clients, by typing in client
and hitting enter.
Here we have the results of our search. From Data Catalog 8.0, this search will seek views or web services that contain the query terms in the element’s metadata, such as:
For example, let's click on the view client
to be taken to the summary of the selected view:
For now we have done a search in the Virtual DataPort metadata. In the next section, we will investigate more advanced functions of the Data Catalog!