Prerequisites

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Enhanced Connector Enhanced connectors add extended capabilities and require a separate entitlement in addition to your Alation platform license.

ACS Customers

If you are an Alation Cloud Service customer, ensure you have Alation Agent installed and running. The Agent is mandatory for this connector in ACS deployments.

On-premise / Self-managed Alation Customers

Check Alation Connector Manager (ACM) is installed and running. ACM is mandatory for OCF connectors.

Credentials

The connector supports OAuth authentication using Client ID and Client Secret which are generated in the Qlik UI by an administrator. Follow these steps to prepare Qlik to be accessed by the Alation connector:

1. Navigate to the Qlik Management Console or click the green menu button (top left) and choose Administration. Then choose the OAuth option:

   

2. Click “Create new” to display the OAuth client configuration panel. Choose a Web client type and set name, description and scopes. See the table below for scope requirements.

   

Qlik Scopes

The minimum permissions needed by the connector to perform the desired metadata extraction are as follows:

#	Scope Name	Description
1	user_default	Full access to your account and content.
2	Spaces.shared	Read and manage your shared spaces
3	spaces.shared:read	Read access to shared spaces.
4	spaces.managed	Read and manage your managed spaces
5	spaces.managed:read	Read access to managed spaces.
6	identity.email:read	Read access to the user’s email address.
7	identity.name:read	Read access to the user’s full name.
8	Admin.apps	Read and manage all apps in the tenant
9	Admin.apps:read	Read all apps in the tenant
10	Apps	Read and manage your apps
11	apps:read	Read your apps
12	Admin.spaces	admin.spacesRead and manage all spaces in the tenant
13	admin.spaces:read	Read all spaces in the tenant
14	spaces.data	Read and manage your data spaces
15	spaces.data:read	Read your data spaces

3. Ensure “Allow Machine-to-Machine (M2M)” is checked

   

4. Click “Create” and make a note of the Client ID and Client Secret displayed in the UI:

   

5. Click the “…” button on the newly created configuration and choose “Change consent method”:

   

6. Set the consent method to Trusted: