You can use Metadata Command Center to extract metadata from a source system.
A source system is any system that contains data or metadata. For example, Qlik Sense Cloud is a source system from which you can extract metadata through a Qlik Sense Cloud catalog source with Metadata Command Center. A catalog source is an object that represents and contains metadata from the source system.
Before you extract metadata from a source system, you first create and register a catalog source that represents the source system.
When Metadata Command Center extracts metadata, Data Governance and Catalog displays the extracted metadata and its attributes as technical assets. You can then perform tasks such as analyzing the assets, viewing lineage, and creating links between those assets and their business context.
The following table describes the capabilities of the catalog source:
Capability
Description
Serverless Runtime Environment
A serverless runtime environment is an advanced serverless deployment solution that doesn't require downloading, installing, configuring, or maintaining a Secure Agent or Secure Agent group. You can use a serverless runtime environment in the same way that you use a Secure Agent when you configure a catalog source.
Extraction and view process
To extract metadata from a source system, configure the catalog source and run the extraction job in Metadata Command Center. Then view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.
The following image shows the process to extract metadata from a Qlik Sense Cloud source system:
After you verify prerequisites, perform the following tasks to extract metadata from Qlik Sense Cloud:
1Register a catalog source. Create a catalog source object, select Qlik Sense Cloud, and specify values for connection properties.
2Configure the catalog source. Specify the runtime environment, configure the metadata extraction capability, and add filters for metadata extraction.
3Optionally, associate stakeholders. Associate users with technical assets, giving the users permission to perform actions determined by their roles.
4Run or schedule the catalog source job.
5Optionally, if the catalog source job generates referenced asset objects, you can assign a connection to referenced source system assets.
You can view the lineage with object references without performing connection assignment. After connection assignment, you can view the objects.
After you run the catalog source job, you view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.
About the Qlik Sense Cloud catalog source
You can use the Qlik Sense Cloud catalog source to extract metadata from the Qlik Sense Cloud source system.
Qlik Sense Cloud is a cloud-based business intelligence tool to connect to data and create reports. It offers modern analytics that enables you to uncover insights and initiate actions.
Extracted metadata
You can use the Qlik Sense Cloud catalog source to extract metadata from a Qlik Sense Cloud source.
Objects extracted
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from a Qlik Sense Cloud source system:
