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Offline Scanning

You can conduct manual or on demand scans (Offline scan) of resources from the Data Sources page.

Supported Datasources for Offline Scan

Note

Below connectors communicate directly via JDBC drivers, which are independent of specific systems, platforms, or conditions to the hosting environment. The only requirements are valid credentials and network access:

  • Oracle
  • MySql
  • PostgreSql
  • MsSql
  • Vertica
  • Dremio
Datasource AWS Azure GCP
Databricks Unity Catalog ✅ ❌ ❌
Databricks SQL ✅ ✅ ❌
DynamoDB ✅ ❌ ❌
EMR Hive ✅ ❌ ❌
MySQL ✅ ✅ ❌
Oracle ✅ ✅ ❌
Postgres ✅ ✅ ❌
MSSQL ✅ ✅ ❌
Redshift ✅ ❌ ❌
S3 ✅ ✅ ❌
Snowflake ✅ ❌ ❌
Starburst Trino ✅ ✅ ❌
Vertica ✅ ✅ ❌
Synapse ❌ ✅ ❌
ADLS ✅ ✅ ❌
Google Cloud Storage ✅ ✅ ✅
Google BigQuery ✅ ❌ ✅
Dremio ✅ ✅ ❌

Prerequisites

Make sure following prerequisites are met before starting offline scan:

  1. Application is configured, and a successful test connection has been established.

  2. Ensure that the application is enabled for offline scanning.

Procedure for Offline Scan

  1. Go to Discovery > Data Sources.

  2. From the Applications list, select the application.

  3. Click ADD.

  4. Add Resource for offline scanning by following steps given here.

    Important

    Ensure the value for the Scan Type field is set as Scan.

  5. Click SAVE.

  6. Under Actions column, click SCAN RESOURCE for the Database and the Table or file or folder added in the preceding step.

Note

It may take few minutes to complete the Scan Resource process. The process of Offline Scanning progresses through different stages, starting from "Pending" and moving to "Listing," "Running," and finally "Success" on the Scan status page.

Procedure for Validating Offline Scan On Privacera Portal

  1. Go to Discovery > Scan Status.

  2. Ensure the status of the Scan Resource is SUCCESS, Started in previous step.

  3. Click on either Scan ID or Resource which will navigate you to the Data Inventory > Classifications module. where you can see the Classifications for that Scan Resource.

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