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      Use the Discovery application

      No installation is required: launch the application file, which you can download here:

      Use the Discovery application

      The Discovery application is composed of 2 tabs:

      You can also access the application directory.

      New Discovery tab

      In this tab, you can find the list of the available source types you can discover and then use in the biGENIUS-X application:

      It is currently possible to discover the following data:

      The configuration details for each available source type are in the corresponding article.

      To create a new discovery, click on a source type:

      The connection information is displayed according to the source type chosen:

      By clicking on the eye icon, you can peek at the content of the sensitive fields, such as the password in the previous example.

      Fill in all the needed information and then click on the Next button:

      Click on the Discover Source System Data button:

      The Discovery application connects to the source type with the configuration provided:

      When the metadata is found, the application lists the available objects:

      You can expand the discovered objects to check the metadata:

      Select the objects you need for the discovery and click on the Save As... button:

      By default, the Discovery file name respects the format [Discovery name]_YYYYMMDD_HHmmSS.yaml and will be saved in the Discoveries folder:

      Save the file.

      This file can now be used to create a discovery in the biGENIUS-X application.

      The discovery configuration itself is stored in the DataStorage folder.

      Recent tab

      In this tab, you can find all the previous discovery configurations you did:

      Source System Type groups them.

      This list comes from the configurations stored in the DataStorage folder.

      If you click on a recent discovery, the configuration details are displayed:

      You can update them and create a discovery file using the same process as the New discovery tab.

      It is also possible to remove a discovery from the Recent tab by right-clicking on a discovery and choosing the remove entry:

      Access the application directory

      To access the application directory, click on the Application Directory button:

      The application directory opens:

      The application directory is available in the path C:\Users[Username]\AppData\Local\biGENIUS\DiscoveryApp\

      It is composed of 3 folders:

      Logs

      The Logs folder contains one log file per discovery application launch:

      In the previous example, the application was launched twice on the 21st of October, so there are 2 log files.

      Example of a log file content:

      20XX-10-22 09:26:28.952 +02:00 [INF] Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
      20XX-10-22 09:26:28.981 +02:00 [INF] Hosting environment: Production
      20XX-10-22 09:26:28.981 +02:00 [INF] Content root path: C:\Users\[Username]\Desktop
      20XX-10-22 09:42:58.915 +02:00 [INF] AW2019_Sales_Azure has been updated.
      20XX-10-22 09:43:16.139 +02:00 [INF] Discovery created successfully

      File location: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\biGENIUS\DiscoveryApp\Discoveries\AW2019_Sales_Azure_20XX1022_094311.yaml
      20XX-10-22 09:43:36.598 +02:00 [INF] ADW2019_Sales has been cancelled.

      DataStorage

      The DataStorage folder contains one JSON file per Discovery type:

      One file per Source System Type contains the existing configurations. You can consult them in the Recent tab.

      Example of a JSON configuration file:

      [{"Id":"6b526fe1-572f-4aad-b7cd-e829bf8ba6aa","Name":"ADW2019_Sales","Server":"localhost,1460","Database":"AdventureWorks2019","AuthenticationType":"SQL Server Authentication","User":"sa","Schema":"Sales"},
      {"Id":"295b8615-dc0b-4794-a509-da079c6e40f8","Name":"CRM_Example","Server":"localhost,1460","Database":"CRM_Example","AuthenticationType":"SQL Server Authentication","User":"sa","Schema":"dbo"}]

      The passwords and other sensitive information are not stored and are only used to discover the source system data.

      Discoveries

      The Discoveries folder contains the discovery YAML files you created, if you saved them in the default path:

      Here are more details about Discovery file content: Understand the Discovery YAML file content.

      Demonstration video