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.
- In the Visualizer, do one of the following actions:
- Click .
- From the toolbar, click the (UMF) icon.
- From the UMF window, in the UMF drop-down
field, select File Load.
- 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.
- To stop the file load and processing, click the (Stop)
icon button.
- To pause the file load and processing, click the (Pause)
icon button.
- 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.
- 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.