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      NFS Connector

      An out-of-the-box connector is available for the NFS Server/instance. It provides support for crawling file objects, folders, and profiling sample data.

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      Connector Capabilities

      The drivers used by the connector are given below:

      Driver / API

      Version

      Details

      Java rt.jar(1.8)

      1.8

      Comes with JDK version

      Technical Specifications

      The connector capabilities are shown below:

      Crawling

      Feature

      Supported Objects

      Remarks

      Crawling

      Files/Folders

      While crawling FileFolders will be cataloged by default. 


      Profiling

      Please see Profiling Data for more details on profiling.

      Feature

      Details

      Remarks

      File Profiling

      Row count, Columns count, View sample data

      		  

      Sample Profiling

      Supported

      		  

      By default, the service account provided for the connector will be used for any user operations. If the service account has to write privileges, then Insert / Update / Delete operations can be executed.

      Pre-requisites:

      To use the connector, the following need to be available:

      • Connection details as specified in the following section should be available.
      • An admin/service account for crawling and profiling.
      • To upload a file (s), the user should have the ‘WRITE’ permission on the NFS folder path (main or its sub-level folder). 
      • The minimum privileges required are:

      Operation 

      Access Permission

      Connection validate

      Read/Write(To upload these files user should have Write permission.)

      Catalog files/folders

      Read 

      Profile files/folders 

      Read 

      Connection Details
      The following connection settings should be added for connecting to an NFS database:

      Property

      Details

      Database Type

      NFS

      Connection Name

      Select a Connection name for the NFS connector. The name you specify is a reference name to identify your SQL Server database connection in OvalEdge easily. Example: NFS Server Connection

      NFS URL

      Valid path to start crawling files and folders.

      E.g.,/Users/xyz/Downloads

      Validation occurs when the URL is correctly given. Once connectivity is established, additional configurations for crawling and profiling can be specified:

      Crawler settings:

      Property

      Details

      Crawler Configuration

      Crawler Options

      FileFolders by default enabled

      Profiler Settings

      		  

      Profile Options

      No Existence for Profile
         

      Profile Rules

      No Profile Rules Exist

      Note: Supported File Types: CSV, XLS, XLSX, JSON, AVRO, PARQUET, ORC, TXT and GZ