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In this section, we provide guides and references to use the SAP HANA connector.

Configure and schedule SAP HANA metadata and profiler workflows from the OpenMetadata UI:

• Requirements
• Metadata Ingestion
• Data Profiler
• Lineage
• Data Quality
• dbt Integration
• Troubleshooting

Ingestion Deployment

To run the Ingestion via the UI you'll need to use the OpenMetadata Ingestion Container, which comes shipped with custom Airflow plugins to handle the workflow deployment. If you want to install it manually in an already existing Airflow host, you can follow this guide.

If you don't want to use the OpenMetadata Ingestion container to configure the workflows via the UI, then you can check the following docs to run the Ingestion Framework in any orchestrator externally.

Requirements

Metadata

To extract metadata the user used in the connection needs to have access to the SYS schema.

You can create a new user to run the ingestion with:

And, if you have password policies forcing users to reset the password, you can disable that policy for this technical user with:

Note that in order to get the metadata for Calculation Views, Analytics Views and Attribute Views, you need to have enough permissions on the _SYS_BIC schema. You can grant the required permissions to the user by running the following SQL commands:

The same applies to the _SYS_REPO schema, required for lineage extraction.

Profiler & Data Quality

Executing the profiler Workflow or data quality tests, will require the user to have SELECT permission on the tables/schemas where the profiler/tests will be executed. The user should also be allowed to view information in tables for all objects in the database. More information on the profiler workflow setup can be found here and data quality tests here.

Metadata Ingestion

1. Visit the Services Page

Click Settings in the side navigation bar and then Services.

The first step is to ingest the metadata from your sources. To do that, you first need to create a Service connection first.

This Service will be the bridge between OpenMetadata and your source system.

Once a Service is created, it can be used to configure your ingestion workflows.

Select your Service Type and Add a New Service

2. Create a New Service

Click on Add New Service to start the Service creation.

Add a new Service from the Services page

3. Select the Service Type

Select SAP HANA as the Service type and click Next.

Select your Service from the list

4. Name and Describe your Service

Provide a name and description for your Service.

Service Name

OpenMetadata uniquely identifies Services by their Service Name. Provide a name that distinguishes your deployment from other Services, including the other SAP HANA Services that you might be ingesting metadata from.

Note that when the name is set, it cannot be changed.

Provide a Name and description for your Service

5. Configure the Service Connection

In this step, we will configure the connection settings required for SAP HANA.

Please follow the instructions below to properly configure the Service to read from your sources. You will also find helper documentation on the right-hand side panel in the UI.

Configure the Service connection by filling the form