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Data Control Tower (DCT) - Installation Cheat Sheet

By Nicholas Mathison posted 17 days ago
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Data Control Tower (DCT) Installation Cheat Sheet Summary Data Control Tower (DCT) is Delphix’s data governance solution. DCT sits above the Delphix Engines (Continuous Data, Continuous Compliance, or Hyperscale Compliance), where it continuously monitors and directs usage of the engines through an HTTPS connection. DCT is a Dockerized product that is installed on a containerized platform. It is not installed like a traditional Delphix Engine. This guide is meant to assist with the first time installation of DCT. Audience Traditional Delphix Administrators who do not have Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker knowledge might need to ...
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Delphix End of Support Announcement for Delphix Self-Service (Jet Stream)

By Nicholas Mathison posted 03-13-2024
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Hi, We are reaching out to inform you of our plans to end support for Delphix Self-Service (formerly known as JetStream). The March 2024 release of Delphix Continuous Data starts an 18-month end-of-support period for all supported versions of Delphix Self-Service. We will continue to support Delphix Self-Service in prior and current product versions until September 30, 2025 . After September 2025, all versions of Delphix Self-Service will be out of support. Please see the Frequently Asked Questions below for further details. We understand this feature provides important capabilities for your application teams and are committed to continuing ...
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Delphix Usage-Based Pricing Measurements

By Michael Torok posted 03-01-2024
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March 2024 Introduction The Delphix DevOps Data Platform leverages a usage-based pricing model. This usage-based price is dependent on the amount of data managed by Continuous Data, Continuous Compliance, and Hyperscale Compliance, measured in terabytes. This measurement guide will help determine per-terabyte usage across supported source data. Pursuant to Delphix’s pricing model, our customers may use our software and services without having to worry about the number of software instances running. With this pricing model, our customers can use and pay for only as much as is needed and deploy the software in whatever fashion deemed fit. Delphix ...
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Delphix Deprecation Announcement for Docker Compose

By Brian Muskoff posted 01-23-2024
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Hi, We are reaching out to inform you that Docker Compose will be deprecated as a supported container platform for Data Control Tower and Hyperscale Compliance. The January 2024 releases for both products start a 12-month deprecation period for all supported versions on Docker Compose. All prior and current product versions will continue to be supported on Docker Compose until January 2025. Please see the Frequently Asked Questions below for further details. We understand these products provide a daily source of important capabilities to manage your Delphix operations, and we are committed to making your transition a success. We plan to work ...
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Legacy move-to-asm.sh Script End-of-Life Notification: Continuous Data

By Yatin Nayak posted 10-30-2023
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The move-to-asm.sh script procedure, documented here , provides the ability to move virtual Oracle non-multitenant databases to ASM. This procedure does not support Oracle multitenant databases. The Oracle V2ASM CLI export features that shipped in Continuous Data 9.0.0.0 and 12.0.0.0 and later now cover the functionality of move-to-asm.sh in its entirety and additionally support Oracle multitenant databases. The legacy script is now less feature-rich and unnecessary. The following note was previously added to the Continuous Data deprecated features list at 9.0.0.0 GA (March 2023): Release 9.0.0.0 Deprecated features Oracle Oracle ...
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Legacy Database Profiling End of Life

By Claire McManus posted 09-21-2023
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Introduction The legacy profiler for databases is deprecated as of release 15.0. It will reach End of Life and be removed from Delphix Continuous Compliance in a further twelve months. This guide explains how to check if you are using the legacy profiler in any profiling jobs and how to update these jobs to use the Automated Sensitive Data Discovery (ASDD) profiler. This notice does not apply to the legacy profiler for files. How to identify if you are affected Using the API Log into the API client Call the GET /profile-sets/usage endpoint with the following filters: profileSetType: LEGACY connectorType: ...
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Fixing an Invalid Masking Algorithm

By Lisa Bettcher posted 08-01-2023
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In the Delphix Continuous Compliance 13 release, we added indicators in the GUI and API to identify an invalid algorithm. In rare cases, after engine sync import from a previous version or engine upgrade, a note may appear at the top of the algorithms list and an algorithm is highlighted in yellow or red. This indicates that an algorithm is invalid, either incompatible with the current engine version or misconfigured. The algorithm is unusable until the issue is corrected. Some cases can be fixed by editing the algorithm configuration, while others may require assistance from support. This guide explains how to identify and fix the affected algorithm. How ...
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Delphix Documentation Updates Are Now Live

By Michael Torok posted 07-24-2023
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Hi, We are reaching out to let you know of changes that have been made to Delphix’s documentation sites. We have moved the entirety of our documentation to a single provider and are actively working to unify the look and feel of the platform. How does this help? We are now generating documentation for all versions of our products with a single tool and moving toward a single platform. This will allow us to provide a more unified documentation experience and apply changes more quickly. What can you expect? As of July 24, base URLs for our documentation pages will remain the same and redirect you to the new sites. If you have saved deeper ...
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Deprecation and planned End-of-Life (EoL) notice for Job Wizard Feature from Continuous Compliance Engine GUI

By Anoop Kumar posted 05-31-2023
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Hello Delphix Community, We are reaching out to let you know that the Job Wizard feature in the Continuous Compliance Engine GUI is deprecated as of the 11.0.0.0 release. The Job Wizard offers a simplified job creation experience, but only for a limited set of data platforms. We are incrementally upgrading the existing Continuous Compliance UI pages with new, reactive interfaces and improved user experiences. As part of that process, the job wizard's capabilities will be incorporated into the product's standard workflows, which makes them available for all data sources. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your Delphix account team if you have any ...
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Data Control Tower (DCT) - Access Control Implementation

By Nicholas Mathison posted 05-26-2023
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DCT Access Control Implementation Summary Data Control Tower (DCT) fundamentally changes how application teams are governed across the Delphix Platform to ease expansion and management burden. Previously, Delphix administrators were focused on managing individual user-level access on each engine. This made it difficult as teams increased their data set requirements. This inevitably led to more time managing engine access and not rolling out test data management (TDM) practices. Now with DCT, all users are managed and access their data sets through a centralized server. This makes it easier for administrators to manage the Delphix Platform and ...
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Data Control Tower (DCT) - Self Service Migration Steps

By Nicholas Mathison posted 05-17-2023
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DCT Self-Service Migration Summary Data Control Tower (DCT) v7 offers new self-service capabilities! This is an alternative offering for the existing Delphix Continuous Data Self-Service (Jetstream) approach. Due to DCT's central gateway model, you are able to leverage the same self-service capabilities, but now across your entire Delphix Platform. For example, you may now provision a VDB on Engine A, create a bookmark, and provision a VDB on Engine B using that same Bookmark. In addition, DCT's newer functionality, such as VDB Groups and Integrations, enables previously challenging or impossible scenarios. While organizations can simultaneously ...
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Data Control Tower (DCT) SaaS - Migration to Engine-based Management

By Nicholas Mathison posted 05-10-2023
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The following post outlines how Data Control Tower (DCT) SaaS customers can migrate off and to an engine-managed model. This is in preparation for DCT SaaS's end-of-life on May 23rd, 2023. Read the full announcement here. Initial state The customer’s Delphix engines are connected with DCT SaaS which provides monitoring, reporting, and access management. In addition, the customer configured an “application” in their identity provider (IdP) that integrates with DCT SaaS (i.e. https://dataservices.delphix.com). DCT SaaS configures each engine with a DCT SaaS-managed SSO configuration, providing seamless integration across DCT and engines. End ...
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Delphix Extended Support Notice: Continuous Data Connectors

By Nicholas Mathison posted 04-06-2023
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Dear Delphix Customers , We are reaching out to inform you that Delphix is deprecating certain versions of Delphix Continuous Data connectors beginning on April 13, 2023. The affected Connector versions use obsolete frameworks or libraries for which new security fixes and functionality are not available. Newer versions of the Connectors and related functionality will offer improved security, performance, and reliability. On April 13th, the affected Connector versions will enter the Extended Support phase, meaning that no new fixes or workarounds will be possible. We can not guarantee compatibility with the Delphix Continuous Data Engine v10 ...
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Delphix End-Of-Life Notice: Data Control Tower (DCT) SaaS

By Nicholas Mathison posted 03-30-2023
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Dear Delphix Customers, We are reaching out to inform you that Data Control Tower (DCT) SaaS is deprecated immediately with a formal End-of-Life (EoL) date of May 23, 2023. Until then, we will only deliver significant security patches and non-code assistance through our Customer Support channels. Please see the Frequently Asked Questions below for further details. We understand DCT SaaS provides a daily source of important capabilities to manage your Delphix operations, and we are committed to making your transition a success. Your Customer Success Manager will reach out shortly to schedule a meeting, identify the next steps, and help answer any questions. ...
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Delphix Response to OpenSSL Vulnerability Advisory

By Chris Price posted 11-01-2022
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We are aware of the recently published vulnerabilities in OpenSSL v3.0.0 - 3.0.6 ( CVE-2022-3602 & CVE-2022-3786 ). OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue. These vulnerabilities are only realized in certain circumstances where an attacker can control the content of a certificate presented to either a client or server and either a CA has signed a malicious certificate or the victim continues certificate verification despite failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. Delphix products do not use any of the affected versions of OpenSSL. Impact: There is no impact to the Delphix Continuous Data (Virtualization) ...
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Converting MSSQL Advanced Database Connectors to Basic Connectors

By Sandro Latini posted 07-06-2022
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MSSQL Advanced database connectors are widely used to permit customers to access their databases via a domain user account on the Delphix Continuous Compliance engine (KBA reference: Configuring_Masking_Connector_for_Microsoft_SQL_(MSSQL)_(KBA1214) ). However, starting from Delphix Continuous Compliance version 6.0.6.0, customers are able to provide a Customer Properties File where they can pass on to the JDBC driver all the extra properties required. Please consider updating your configuration to take advantage of this new functionality, as we may deprecate the MSSQL Advanced connectors in a future release. Advanced Connector Configuration ...
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Delphix 6.0.15 Continuous Compliance: Important Information for Customers

By David Wells posted 06-10-2022
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We are excited to announce that with the upcoming 6.0.15 release targeted for July 2022, we will have completed the transition of all of our masking algorithms to the new algorithm library. The completed algorithm library affords our customers a number of important improvements over our legacy algorithm technology, including performance, extensibility, security, and portability. As we have upgraded our algorithms, we have strived to make sure we are producing the same output values as before in order to minimize re-mask events in your environments. We took this approach because we are extremely sensitive to the amount of effort required to re-mask interdependent ...
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Delphix Response to Recent News about Spring Framework Denial of Service Vulnerability

By Chris Price posted 05-26-2022
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We are aware of the recently reported denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Spring Framework , reported as CVE-2022-22950 . This vulnerability is only realized in cases where the Spring Expressions Language (SpEL) is in use (see both the announcement from spring.io and the analysis from Checkmarx ). Delphix products do not make use of SpEL and are not impacted by this vulnerability. Impact There is no impact to either the Delphix Virtualization (Continuous Data) engine or the Delphix Masking (Continuous Compliance) Engine. There is no impact to Data Control Tower (DCT) SaaS. There is no impact to Data ...
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Response to Recent News about Spring Framework RCE

By Rajesh Dharmalingam posted 04-05-2022
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We are aware of the recently reported remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Spring Framework , reported as CVE-2022-22965 . The current state of analysis is that while this is potentially a serious vulnerability, it is only exploitable in certain conditions, notably JDK 9 or higher is required and Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19, and older versions are affected, in addition the application has to be packaged as a traditional WAR (in contrast to a Spring Boot executable jar). JDK 8 is not impacted as the change that intersects with Spring Framework to create this vulnerability was introduced in Java 9+ (see both the ...
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Delphix Response to Recent News about Okta

By Chris Price posted 03-22-2022
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We are aware of the recently reported news regarding a potential security incident with Okta (and the update ). At this time we have no indication of impact to Delphix products, services, or customers. Okta is used as part of our integration with customer identity systems in our Data Control Tower SaaS product. Data Control Tower SaaS is used for Delphix Engine management and does not have access to the data managed by the engines. We are actively investigating and taking precautionary measures. We are in communication with our contacts at Okta and continue to monitor this event. This is a developing industry event and we will be providing updates here ...
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