Data Collector can authenticate user accounts based on LDAP or files. Best practice is to use LDAP if your organization has it. By default, Data Collector uses file-based authentication.
You can edit the Data Collector configuration file, $SDC_CONF/sdc.properties, to configure properties such as the host name and port number and account information for email alerts.
$SDC_CONF/sdc.properties
Data Collector pipeline stages communicate with external systems to read and write data. Many of these external systems require credentials - user names or passwords - to access the data. When you configure pipeline stages for these external systems, you define the credentials that the stage uses to connect to the system.
You can configure Data Collector to integrate with data governance tools, giving you visibility into data movement - where the data came from, where it’s going to, and who is interacting with it.
Data Collector uses JMX metrics to generate the graphical display of the status of a running pipeline. You can provide the same JMX metrics to external tools if desired.