Azure Data Lake Storage

Allows you to configure Azure Data Lake Storage as a destination for Inforiver writeback.

After navigating to the add destination page, log-in using your O365 credentials.

After successful log-in, the following details will have to be entered,

• Storage Account

• File System

• Directory

• Partition Required (Y/N)

• Writeback File Name

• Insert Variable

The writeback creates a Parquet file in the data lake storage.

Configure Azure Data Lake Storage destinations

Storage Account: Enter the name of the Azure Data Lake Storage account

Partition Required: If the Inforiver scenario is created and included in the writeback, and the user wants to writeback base and scenarios in separate parquet files, this is recommended.

Insert Variables: Writeback file name can be customized using variables such as Execution ID and date time related IDs.

Security: Please note Inforiver leverages Azure Access Control Lists (ACLs) while configuring Azure Data Lake Storage as a writeback destination. That means the user is only shown folders and directories that they have access to as per the defined ACL rules.

Roles

Ensure that the user has the permissions listed below.

In Inforiver managed mode:

1. Read on the storage account

2. Read and Execute on the file system

Permissions

1. Read, Write, Execute on the folder where the file should be created.

Folder permissions