Enable or Disable Lexicon Search

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Note

Alation Cloud Service customers can request server configuration changes through Alation Support.

Enable or Disable Search by Lexicon Abbreviations. Enable the Lexicon Search using alation_conf:

1. Enter the Alation shell.

2. In alation_conf, set the Lexicon Search flag:

alation_conf alation.search.enable_lexicon_synonym_search -s True

3. Restart the celery-beat component:

alation_supervisor restart celery:celery-beat

4. To disable Lexicon Search, set the flag:

alation_conf alation.search.enable_lexicon_synonym_search -s False