Configuring Workflow Center

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Enabling Workflow Center

An Alation Server Admin with access to the backend of the Alation server is required for enabling Workflow Center.

To enable Workflow Center:

  1. Go to Admin Settings > Server Admin > Feature Configuration.

  2. Toggle Alation Data Governance App to the On position if not already configured. Note that this app is priced and licensed separately from the Data Catalog and must have been purchased from Alation before enabling. The Alation Data Governance App must be purchased and toggled on for access to workflows functionality.

  3. Toggle Workflows to the On position.

  4. Click the Save button.

  5. Stop, then restart uWSGI. Note that this will make Alation unavailable for users for several minutes during the restart process. You can use the following command on the host server - from inside the Alation shell by a user with sudo permissions.

To restart uWSGI:

  1. SSH to your Alation instance.

  2. Enter the Alation shell.

sudo /etc/init.d/alation shell
  1. Stop uWSGI.

alation_action stop_uwsgi
  1. Restart uWSGI.

alation_action start_uwsgi
  1. Refresh the Alation page to see the change enabled.

Disabling Workflow Center

An Alation Server Admin with access to the backend of the Alation server is required for disabling Workflow Center.

To disable Workflow Center:

  1. Go to Admin Settings > Server Admin > Feature Configuration.

  2. Toggle Workflows to the Off position.

  3. Click the Save button.

  4. Stop, then restart uWSGI. Note that this will make Alation unavailable for users for several minutes during the restart process. You can use the following command on the host server - from inside the Alation shell by a user with sudo permissions.

To restart uWSGI:

  1. SSH to your Alation instance.

  2. Enter the Alation shell.

sudo /etc/init.d/alation shell
  1. Stop uWSGI.

alation_action stop_uwsgi
  1. Restart uWSGI.

alation_action start_uwsgi
  1. Refresh the Alation page to see the change enabled.