Test Data Manager
The Test Data Manager is a web-based interface that you use to manage connections, preferences and workflow settings.
Access the Test Data Manager from a web browser.
The following image shows the Test Data Manager:
A workspace is a container for Test Data Manager components. You can click on connections and other Test Data Manager components to open them in another workspace.
The Test Data Manager contains views. By default, an administrator can access the Administrator view of the Test Data Manager. To access the other views in the Test Data Manager, assign the privileges for the other views to the administrator account.
The Administrator view contains the following tabs:
- Preferences
- Configure connections to application services and configure workflow preferences, data domain sensitivity levels, data discovery profiling, default settings for data generation, and Hive properties .
- Connections
- Configure connections to source and target databases.
- Dictionaries
- View and manage dictionaries to use in masking rules.
- Application Logs
- View and search application level logs.
- Repository and Data Mart
- Configure connections to the test data repository and test data mart.
The contents panel shows an overview of the items in a view.
The details panel shows additional details for a single item in the contents panel.
Logging In to the Test Data Manager
To access the Test Data Manager, enter the host name and port number of the TDM Server in a web browser.
To log in, enter a user name and password defined in Informatica Administrator.
1. In the address bar of a web browser, enter the Test Data Manager URL.
- - Use the following format if Transport Layer Security is enabled:
https://hostname:portnumber/tdm/
- - Use the following format if Transport Layer Security is not enabled:
http://hostname:portnumber/tdm/
Where:
- - hostname is the host name or IP address of the machine where you installed the TDM Server.
- - portnumber is the port number. The default is 6643 if Transport Layer Security is enabled. The default is 6605 if Transport Layer Security is not enabled.
For example, you might enter the following URL:
http://TXW1779:6643/tdm/
The Login dialog box of the Test Data Manager appears.
2. Enter the user name and password.
Select the security domain. If the Informatica domain is configured to use LDAP authentication, the default security domain Native.
3. Click Login.
The Test Data Manager appears.
To log out of the Test Data Manager, click Logout.
Changing Passwords
To change the password for the administrator account and for other users, use the PowerCenter Administrator tool.
