IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Loading data from a file

Use the File Load feature in the Visualizer to load data for multiple identities that are defined in a UMF file. File Load will only load <UMF_ENTITY> records. When you select a UMF file, the system opens the file, loads the data into the pipeline, and then the pipeline processes the identities in the file, which adds them to the entity database and resolves any entities and identified relationships. Alerts are generated based on the rules that were configured.

About this task

Entity and relationship resolution occur in the pipeline component. To load and process UMF files through the Visualizer, there must be a pipeline that is running and available for the Visualizer server to communicate with.

Before loading a file, you might want to validate the UMF in the file, to be certain that there are no errors in the file.

  1. In the Visualizer, do one of the following actions:
    1. Click View > UMF > File Load.
    2. From the toolbar, click the (UMF) icon.
    3. From the UMF window, in the UMF drop-down field, select File Load.
  2. Click Load File... to select the UMF file to load, and then click Open. The system loads the selected file into the pipeline, and the pipeline begins processing the data in the file. The File progress bar shows you the time elapsed during processing, the number of records processed, and the status of the file load.
    1. To stop the file load and processing, click the (Stop) icon button.
    2. To pause the file load and processing, click the (Pause) icon button.
    3. To resume loading and processing the file after pausing, click the (Continue) icon button.

    As the data in the file is loaded, a pipeline processes the data through entity and relationship resolution. If you see an error, contact your system administrator. The error is most likely a pipeline problem.

    New identities are added to the database, along with resolved entities and relationships. The system generates any alerts related to the data, based on the configured system rules.

  3. Optional: After the file is loaded and processed, click View Results to display the File Load Results dialog, which includes the following information:
    • The number of records sent to the pipeline.
    • The number of new entities created in the entity database, based on the data from the file that you loaded.
    • The number of UMF exceptions that the pipeline encountered while processing the data in this file. (This number can indicate errors in the UMF file or problems in the syntax that prevent the pipeline from fully processing the data.)
What to do next
If the File Load Results dialog indicates that there were any UMF exceptions in the file that you loaded, validate the file, using the UMF File Validation feature to help you find the errors in the file, so that you can correct them. Once you correct the errors, reload the data that contained the errors, so that the pipeline can fully process that data.


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Last updated: 2009