🧪 Preview feature! This feature is currently in an experimental phase, and its functionality may change before the final release. We’d love your feedback to refine it. To request access to the SAP ECC connector in your Metadata Marketplace, Atlan Secure Agent Installer, and Secure Agent documentation, create a ticket with Atlan Support.
Atlan crawls metadata from your SAP ECC, allowing you to discover, classify, and govern your SAP data assets. This guide walks you through the steps to configure and run the SAP ECC crawler in Atlan.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, complete the following prerequisites:
- SAP ECC setup: You have configured the SAP ECC permissions, so you can establish a connection between Atlan and SAP ECC. It not, raise a ticket with Atlan support.
- Order of operations: Review the order of operations to understand the sequence of tasks for crawling metadata.
- Access to Atlan workspace: You must have the required permissions in Atlan to create and manage a connection.
Select the source
To select SAP ECC as your source:
- In Atlan, click New, and from the menu, select New Workflow.
- From the Marketplace page, click SAP ECC Assets.
- Click Setup Workflow in the right panel to proceed with configuration.
Provide credentials
Atlan SAP Secure Agent extracts metadata from SAP ECC and stores the extracted files in JSON format in an object store, such as an Amazon S3 bucket, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
Follow these steps to connect to the object store:
- For Extraction method, Offline is the default selection.
- For Bucket name, enter the name of your S3 bucket.
- For Bucket prefix, enter the S3 prefix under which all the metadata files exist. These include `table.json`, `abap.json`, and more.
- When complete, at the bottom of the screen, click Next.
Configure the connection
To complete the SAP ECC connection configuration:
- Provide a Connection Name that represents your source environment. For example, you might use values like
production,development,gold, oranalytics. - (Optional) To change the users who are able to manage this connection, change the users or groups listed under Connection Admins.
🚨 Careful! If you do not specify any user or group, no one will be able to manage the connection — not even admins.
- Navigate to the bottom of the screen and click Next to proceed.
Run the crawler
To run the SAP ECC crawler, after completing the steps above:
- Click Preflight checks to verify configuration.
- Choose one of the following options:
- To run the crawler once immediately, click Run.
- To schedule the crawler, click Schedule & Run.
Once the crawler has completed running, you will see the assets on Atlan's assets page! 🎉