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.

Credentials

The ThoughtSpot connector supports basic authentication using the ThoughtSpot username and password. This account is created in ThoughtSpot’s Service Account section.

Service Account

Follow the steps below to create a ThoughtSpot user with admin privileges:

  1. Navigate to the ThoughtSpot Admin Console by selecting the Admin tab from the top navigation bar.

  2. Select Users from the side navigation bar that appears.

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  3. Select the +Add User button on the upper-left side of the list of users.

  4. In the Add a new user page, enter the details for the new service account user. Note that the user creates their password as part of the activation process. Ensure you select the Administrator group to assign the required admin privileges to the user.

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  5. Select ADD to create the user.

URI

Note the URI of your ThoughtSpot instance. The URI format should be https://<your-thoughtspot-instance>.thoughtspot.cloud/.