Prerequisites

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

ACS Customers

If you are an Alation Cloud Service customer, ensure you have Alation Agent installed and running. The Agent is mandatory for this connector in ACS deployments.

On-premise / Self-managed Alation Customers

Check Alation Connector Manager (ACM) is installed and running. ACM is mandatory for OCF connectors.

Firewall Configuration

Open outbound TCP port 443 on Power BI Server for Rest API communication.

Authentication Requirements

The PowerBI On-prem connector supports:

• Basic Authentication

• Kerberos Authentication

• NTLM Authentication

Note: If Entra ID is deployed for Power BI authentication you can consider using Entra ID’s support for Kerberos or NTLM.

Create a Service Account

The connector will only extract Power BI workspaces that are accessible by the service account whose credentials are configured in the connector settings. Create a service account, or use an existing account, and keep a note of these credentials for the connector configuration step.

Permissions for the Service Account

The Power BI administrator will need to grant workspace permission to members. Access to at least one workspace must be granted.