Catalog Source Configuration > Oracle Cloud Object Storage > Before you begin

Before you begin

Before you create a catalog source, ensure that you have the information required to connect to the source system.

Ensure that you complete the following prerequisite tasks:

•Verify that your Secure Agent is running on Microsoft Windows.
•Install the Oracle Cloud Object Storage software for Microsoft Windows on the same machine where you installed the Secure Agent.
•Verify authentication.
•Verify permissions.
•Get Oracle Cloud Object Storage source information.
•Use the Oracle connector and the OracleScanner package to connect to the Oracle source system in Administrator. For more information about configuring a connection in Administrator, see Connections in the Cloud Common Services help.
•If you're configuring a connection to an SSL-enabled Oracle database, specify appropriate values for the Trust Store and Key Store fields in the Oracle connection properties. The data profiling task for an SSL-enabled Oracle database may fail if either the Truststore or Keystore value is not specified in the connection properties.

Verify authentication

To extract Oracle Cloud Object Storage metadata, you need to perform Simple or ConfigFile Authentication.

Simple Authentication is an API key-based authentication. You provide the authentication details in the Oracle Cloud Object Storage connection. You must place the private key file in the Secure Agent machine.

You need the following information to perform Simple Authentication:

•Tenancy
•User
•Fingerprint
•Private key location

Note: Place the private key in the runtime environment you use.

•Valid bucket name
•Region

Note: The region is populated by default.

ConfigFile authentication is based on the profile selected in a configuration file. For example:

[<profile name>]
user=<user ocid>
fingerprint=<fingerprint>
tenancy=<tenancy ocid>
region=<region>
key_file=<private key file location>

By default, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI configuration file is located at ~/.oci/config. The ~/.oci/config file can contain multiple profiles. The default profile name is DEFAULT. You can change the default profile name to a new profile name based on the profiles that you add to the ~/.oci/config file. The ~/.oci/config file cannot contain two profiles with the same name.

You need the following information to perform ConfigFile Authentication:

•The configuration file location

Note: The file needs to contain user, tenancy, fingerprint, and the private key location present in the runtime environment.

•Valid bucket name
•Profile name marked in the configuration file
• Region

Note: The region is populated by default.

Verify permissions and privileges

To extract Oracle Cloud Object Storage metadata, you need account access and permissions to the Oracle Cloud Object Storage source system.

Verify that the administrator performs the following tasks:

•Creates a minimal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management policy.
•Defines users, groups, and one or more compartments to hold the cloud resources for your organization.
•Creates one or more policies, each written in the policy language.
•Places users into appropriate groups depending on the compartments and resources they need to work with.
•Provides the users with the one-time passwords that they need to access the console and work with the compartments.

Get Oracle Cloud Object Storage source information

Before you configure the catalog source, ask the Oracle Cloud Object Storage administrator for values of connection properties that you need to configure the catalog source.

Note: You don't need to create a connection object for Oracle Cloud Object Storage. You provide this information when you configure the catalog source.