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Datameer Spotlight gives organizations fast access and deep visibility into all of their enterprise data assets - whether in the cloud or on-premises - via a single unified self-service platform. With Datameer Spotlight business teams can discover, access, collaborate and analyze more data for faster, more trusted cloud analytics while eliminating complex data movement and maintaining strong governance.

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Datameer X Prerequisites

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  • Spotlight must be able to read the data files at the S3 folder/ file locations, provided by the Datameer DWH API:
    • access key/secret must be known in the appropriate account that can read from Datameer X's internal storage bucket
    • have

      these credentials need to be

      set as connection options

      provided as additional "Connection Options" inside Spotlight when setting up the Datameer X connection using this format

      Code Block
      fs.s3a.access.key=your_access_key 
      fs.s3a.secret.key=your_secret_key
    • these connection options only needed to be provided once for each user who needs to create connections to Datameer X. Future connections created by the same user will inherit these options.

These connection options are for creating connections only. Once a connection to Datameer X is created, other Spotlight users only need to provide their normal username and password to access that data (assuming they have permission in Datameer X to view that data).