Prerequisites to access Cloudera Data Catalog

To access the Cloudera Data Catalog, you must have the required credentials.

Follow these instructions to provide the required access to the Cloudera Data Catalog users.

Cloudera Data Catalog users must have either an EnvironmentAdmin or EnvironmentUser role assigned. For more information, see the related documents.

The PowerUser must provide access to subscribers who plan to use Cloudera Data Catalog, either as an EnvironmentAdmin or an EnvironmentUser.


EnvironmentAdmin	EnvironmentUser
Can perform similar actions as EnvironmentUser.	Can create Dataset and related actions (Add assets, remove assets, tag assets, tag asset columns, and few others) for data lakes.
Additionally, in Cloudera Management Console, can perform the following: Delete Environments. Stop Environments. Upgrade data lake.	Connect to Atlas and Ranger entities for data lakes for which there is access.
	Search for assets on the search page.
	Bookmark any dataset (even with no data lakes or data lakes to which access is not available).
	Access profilers.
	Create custom tags.
	Launch profilers on a data lake from the search page. Ability to launch the Workload cluster (Must have the Power User role assigned).
	Use Filters on the Search page of Cloudera Data Catalog to filter results.
	Launch profilers on a data lake from the search page.

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These roles can be assigned as the following types:

Account roles: An account role grants a user, machine user, or group permissions to access or perform tasks on all resources within the Cloudera tenant.
Resource roles: A resource role grants a user, machine user, or group permissions to access or perform tasks on a specific resource (such as a specific environment or a specific Cloudera Data Hub cluster).

For more information, see Understanding account roles and resource roles.

Additionally, using Cloudera Manager, you must configure Apache Atlas and Apache Ranger services. Use the following instructions to complete the process.