Setup tasks for the Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center

Note

The connector is subject to the Snowflake Connector Terms.

This topic describes the tasks required to set up, configure, and run the Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center.

Prerequisites

  1. Review About Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center.

  2. Set up your runtime deployment.

  3. If you are using Openflow - Snowflake Deployments, ensure that you have reviewed configuring required domains and have granted access to the domains required by the connector.

  4. You have access to the Openflow admin role or similar role you use to manage Openflow.

  5. If you are creating a Snowflake service user to manage the connector, you have created a key pair authentication. For more information, see key-pair authentication.

  6. Ensure that you have the following credentials and site URL available:

    Credential

    Description

    How obtained

    Site URL

    Your Confluence instance URL

    Use your organization’s Confluence URL. For example, https://your-company.atlassian.net

    Admin Personal Access Token

    API token for the admin account

    Generated by the Confluence administrator. See Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center: Generate API tokens.

    User Personal Access Token

    API token for the non-admin account

    Generated in the Account Settings. See Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center: Generate API tokens.

Tasks

The following personas are used when setting up the Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center:

  • Confluence Data Center Admin: Generates a Personal Access Token within the Confluence instance. The connector uses this token for authentication.

  • Openflow Administrator: Creates and configures the database, service users, and roles the connector requires to run.

  • Data Engineer: Installs, configures, and runs the connector in Snowflake Openflow.

Perform the following tasks to set up, configure, and run the Openflow Connector for Confluence Data Center.

Order

Task

Description

Persona

0

Review prerequisites

Review and confirm all required prerequisites.

Confluence administrator

1

Install the Confluence companion app

Install Snowflake Openflow companion app

Confluence administrator

2

Generate API tokens

Generate API tokens

Confluence administrator

3

Set up Snowflake to support the connector

Set up Snowflake

Snowflake account administrator

4

Set up the connector

Set up a connector

Data engineer

Next steps

Monitor the flow.