Mass Ingestion Tool
The Mass Ingestion tool is a web application that you use to run mass ingestion jobs.
You can use the Mass Ingestion tool to design a mass ingestion specification to specify how you want to ingest data. You can deploy and run the mass ingestion specification to perform the ingestion job, and you can monitor the ingestion job to review ingestion statistics.
Logging In to the Mass Ingestion Tool
After the system administrator configures the Mass Ingestion Service, you can log in to the Mass Ingestion tool. The Mass Ingestion tool is a web application where you create, deploy, run, and monitor mass ingestion specifications. To get the URL for the Mass Ingestion tool, contact your system administrator.
1. Open Google Chrome.
2. In the Address field, enter the following URL provided by your system administrator:
http://<host>:<port>/mi/login
3. On the login page for the Mass Ingestion tool, enter your user name and password.
4. Click Log In.
The landing page for the Mass Ingestion tool appears.
Mass Ingestion Tool User Interface
Use the Mass Ingestion tool to design and implement mass ingestion jobs.
You can create multiple mass ingestion specifications in the Mass Ingestion tool, but you can work only on one mass ingestion specification at a time. To work in the Mass Ingestion tool, you access the Mass Ingestion tool workbench.
The following figure shows the Mass Ingestion tool workbench:
- 1. Menu. View navigation options to create a mass ingestion specification or browse mass ingestion specifications.
- 2. New. Create a mass ingestion specification.
- 3. Browse. Browse created mass ingestion specifications.
- 4. Mass ingestion specification. Review the name of the mass ingestion specification, the time the specification was last modified, and the time the specification was last run.
- 5. User. View the user who is currently signed in, or sign out of the Mass Ingestion tool.
- 6. Help. Access help for the Mass Ingestion tool.
Navigation
You can navigate to additional pages from the Mass Ingestion tool workbench.
You can navigate to the following pages:
- Browse
- Displays the mass ingestion specifications that you create. To navigate to the Browse page, select Browse from the menu.
- Create
Displays the wizard where you can create a mass ingestion specification. To navigate to the creation wizard, select New from the menu.
- Overview
Displays details on a mass ingestion specification. To navigate to the Overview page, select a mass ingestion specification on the Browse page.
On the Overview page, you can access the following views:
- - Summary view. Review general mass ingestion specification properties.
- - Deploy view. Deploy, redeploy, and run a mass ingestion specification.
- - Execution History view. Browse the run instances for a mass ingestion specification.
- Execution Statistics
Displays detailed information on the ingestion job for a mass ingestion specification. To navigate to the Execution Statistics page, navigate to the Overview page. On the Overview page, select a mass ingestion specification run instance.
On the Execution Statistics page, you can access the following views:
- - Job Properties view. Review general mass ingestion specification properties for the run instance.
- - Ingestion Objects view. Browse the source tables that are ingested in the mass ingestion specification.
- - Ingestion Status view. View a summary of the mass ingestion job configured in the mass ingestion specification.
- - Ingestion Statistics view. Review ingestion job statistics for a specific source table.
- Help
- Displays the help for the Mass Ingestion tool.
