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Gain the fundamental knowledge and skills to administer an Informatica Data Quality environment. Learn to configure services, manage security, and identify system issues as part of standard maintenance.

Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:

  • Describe core administration tasks and tools
  • Configure the Informatica Administrator tool
  • Create and configure necessary services
  • Manage Informatica security
  • Audit security access and privileges
  • Perform ongoing maintenance
  • Stop or recycle a service
  • Review domain logs

Course Duration

  • Three-days of instructor led training
  • 60% lecture, 40% hands-on

Target Audience

  • Administrators

Prerequisites

  • N/A

Agenda

Module 1: Data Quality Introduction

  • Informatica Data Quality technical architecture
  • Informatica domain, nodes, and application services
  • Overview of the PowerCenter clients.

Module 2: Best Practices

  • Configuring an environment
  • Recognized Naming Conventions

Module 3: Installing Informatica 10

  • Installing Informatica 10
  • Reviewing installation logs
  • Using command-line utilities

Module 4: Using the Informatica Administrator tool

  • Administration tool layout and navigation
  • Views in the Manage Tab
  • Services and Nodes
  • License key types

Module 5: Configuring the Model Repository Service

  • Adding and moving a Model Repository Service
  • Auditing

Module 6: Configuring the Data Integration Service

  • Creating connections
  • Home Directory location
  • Stopping and starting a service

Module 7: Users and Groups

  • Creating user and group accounts
  • Creating accounts using scripts
  • Adding users to groups
  • Importing LDAP user accounts and groups

Module 8: Privileges and Roles

  • Configuring roles and privileges
  • Assigning privileges and roles
  • Domain folders and services

Module 9: Permissions

  • Assigning permissions to domains and domain objects
  • Verifying permissions

Module 10: Configuring the Analyst Service

  • Creating connections
  • Analyst Services
  • Analyst Service folders
  • Analyst Service permissions and log
  • The Analyst command line

Module 11: Configuring the Content Management Service

  • Connecting the Developer client to the domain
  • Data Integration Service defaults
  • MRS projects and set permissions
  • Project folders and set permissions
  • Simple mapping
  • Deploying mappings

Module 12: Configuring the Data Director Service

  • The Scheduler Service
  • Setting a schedule

Module 13: Domain Administration and Management

  • Create and configure a Content Management Service (CMS)
  • Install OOTB content
  • Install Identity (IMO) content
  • Install Address Doctor (AD) content
  • Install the Classifier model

Module 14: Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  • The Monitoring view
  • Configuring Log Management properties
  • Filtering logs
  • Auditing user activity