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Overview

Live Data Map brings together all data assets in an enterprise and presents a comprehensive view of the data assets and data asset relationships. Live Data Map is installed within the Informatica domain. The Informatica domain is the administrative unit for the Live Data Map environment. The Informatica domain includes a collection of nodes that represent the machines on which the application services run. Application services represent server-based functionality. Live Data Map application services include services that you create and system services that are created when you create the domain.
To use Live Data Map, you must install the Live Data Map services and create a domain. The Live Data Map services consist of services to support the domain and application services to perform tasks and manage databases. When you install the Live Data Map services on a machine, you install all the files for all services.
You can see the following topics to get started after installing Live Data Map:
Live Data Map Services
Information about the application services in Live Data Map.
Informatica Security
Information about securing the Informatica domain from internal and external threats along with the types of security that you can configure. This topic also includes information about supported user security methods and information about securing communication within the domain.
Domain Configuration
Information about configuring the domain services.
Creating the Application Services
Information about creating the different application services and the configuration steps to be performed after creating the services.
Users and Groups
Information about managing users and groups that you can create and configure in the Informatica domain.
Privileges and Roles
Information about the different privileges and roles that you can configure for the users and groups.
Permissions
Information about the permissions that you can configure for the users and groups to access different objects in the Informatica domain.
Note: This document includes basic reference information about Informatica Administrator tasks that you can perform in Live Data Map. For more information about the Informatica Administrator concepts and tasks, see the following guides: