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Introduction to erwin Mart Server catalog sources

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, erwin Mart Server is a source from which you can extract metadata through an erwin Mart Server 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 relationships, and creating links between those assets and their business context.
You can only extract metadata using this catalog source.

Extraction and view process

To extract metadata from a source system, configure the catalog source and run the metadata 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 source system:
The image shows the process of metadata extraction from an erwin Mart Server source system that begins with prerequisites verification, continues with the creation of the catalog source, and ends with viewing the results and lineage.
After you verify prerequisites, perform the following tasks to extract metadata from erwin Mart Server:
  1. 1Register a catalog source. Register the erwin Mart Server source system with Metadata Command Center to create the catalog source.
  2. 2Configure capabilities. A capability is a task that Metadata Command Center can perform, such as metadata extraction or data profiling.
  3. 3Optionally, associate stakeholders. Associate users with technical assets, giving the users permission to perform actions determined by their roles.
  4. 4Run or schedule the catalog source job.
  5. 5Optionally, assign a connection to referenced source system assets.
After you run the catalog source job, you can view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.

About the erwin Mart Server catalog source

You can use the erwin Mart Server catalog source to extract metadata from an erwin Mart Server source system.
erwin Mart Server is a web-based repository to access erwinData Modeler models and perform administrative tasks.

Extracted metadata

You can use the erwin Mart Server catalog source to extract metadata from an erwin Mart Server source system.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from the erwin Mart Server source system: