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Data Control Tower 2.2.0
  • 08 Mar 2023
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Data Control Tower 2.2.0

  • Updated on 08 Mar 2023
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Overview

Data Control Tower (DCT) is a unified data management platform used to enable API-driven DevOps workflows with Continuous Data and Compliance, and centrally manage the entire data estate for all Delphix users. The core of DCT focuses on a centralized, container-based deployment architecture with a robust API library that enables automation and management across multiple Delphix Engines. The DCT container form factor allows users to self-host on their preferred public or private cloud environment. For more information, see Upgrade DCT. 

New in DCT 2.2.0

Deployment

APIs

  • Registration of Continuous Compliance Engines
  • Masking Connectors
  • “Move Masking Job”
  • Masking of mainframe objects
  • Provisioning enhancements for Oracle multi-tenant and RAC
  • LDAP/Active Directory authentication
  • Password management
  • Initial access management by Permissions, Roles, Policies, and Access Groups (permissions applied to all objects of a type e.g. Stop VDB permission on all VDBs)
  • Distributed tracing and logging (Trace ID propagated down call stack)
  • Bulk delete of tags

UI

  • Continuous Data
    • Added tag support to the Infrastructure page
    • New dSources page
    • New VDBs page
  • Insights
    • Added an export behavior to the Storage Summary report
    • New dSource Inventory report
    • New VDB Inventory report
  • Admin
    • New Accounts page

DCT Features

  • Automation APIs to enable automating compliant data within DevOps pipelines
  • Reporting APIs to provide central reporting across many Delphix Engines
  • Terraform Provider for Delphix support, for data infrastructure automation
  • Engine versions 6.0.0.1 and above are supported for Continuous Data
  • Connections to Engines over HTTPs (self-provided certificate authority when necessary)
  • Username/password to authenticate with engines stored in DCT or provided via Password Vault
  • HashiCorp Vault supported
  • Audit logging via Nginx access log, self-configured Docker logging going to fluentd, splunk, etc.
  • Native APIs keys supported for DCT authentication, OAuth2.0 provided via Nginx module
  • OpenAPI 3.0 spec (self-generated client libraries with open-source tooling)

Supported APIs

APIDescription
EnginesList engines connected to DCT.
EnvironmentsList environments across Engines.
DatasetsList sources, dSources, and VDBs across Engines.
SnapshotsList Timeflow Snapshots for a dataset.
BookmarksBookmark a point in time in a VDB to ease the process of restoring the VDB later to that point in time.
VDB ProvisioningProvision Oracle single instance, MSSQL, or Sybase ASE databases.
VDB OperationsEnable, Disable, Start, Stop, Delete, Refresh, Rewind VDBs.
VDB GroupsA new grouping mechanism used in conjunction with bookmarks that was previously supported by VDB Templates in the Self Service module.
JobsMonitor progress of asynchronous tasks.
ReportingQuery across multiple engines to list storage capability, VDB inventory, and dSource inventory.
ConnectivityChecks connectivity between an Engine and a remote host machine.
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