Basic Administration and Configuration
Each Teradata Database System that will have database information loaded into the MDS repository must be configured in MDS before its information can be loaded into the MDS repository. This section provides basic instructions. For detailed information on loading database systems and databases into the Teradata Repository, see “Chapter 2 Administering and Loading Data” on page 45.
Figure 2 shows a typical Teradata MDS configuration consisting of:
Your environment might also contain one or more workstations that will be used to develop or run MDS applications and, if the Teradata MDS Automatic DIM Update feature is to be installed, a designated DIM Update server.
Figure 2: MDS Architecture