Send Assets Data - Snowflake Data Warehouse
  • 13 Oct 2024
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Send Assets Data - Snowflake Data Warehouse pushes CSV files containing asset data into their Snowflake data lake for:

  • Assets returned by the selected query or assets selected on the relevant asset page.

See Creating Enforcement Sets to learn more about adding Enforcement Actions to Enforcement Sets.

Note:

Required Fields

These fields must be configured to run the Enforcement Set.

  • Action name - The name of this Enforcement Action. The system sets a default name. You can change the name.
  • Configure Dynamic Values - Toggle on to enter a Dynamic Value statement. See Creating Enforcement Action Dynamic Value Statements to learn more about Dynamic Value statement syntax.

  • Use stored credentials from Snowflake Data Warehouse adapter - Select this option to use credentials from the adapter connection.
    • When you select this option, the Select Adapter Connection drop-down becomes available. Select the adapter connection to use for this Enforcement Action.
Note:
To use this option, you must successfully configure a Snowflake Data Warehouse adapter connection.
  • Pipe Name - Case-sensitive fully-qualified name of a pipe that loads data from files as soon as they are available. For example, myDatabase.mySchema.myPipe.
  • Compute Node - The Axonius node to use when connecting to the specified host. For more details, see Connecting Additional Axonius Nodes.

Additional Fields

These fields are optional.

  • Account Identifier - The Snowflake account within your organization. The preferred structure is: <organization_name>-<account_name>

    For more information, see Account Identifiers.

  • Warehouse (default: COMPUTE_WH) - Enter the relevant data warehouse. Note that the value is case-sensitive.

  • Username - The credentials for a user account that has required permissions to perform this action.

  • RSA Private Key - Upload the RSA Private Key associated with a user account that has permissions perform this action.

  • Devices View Name - Enter the View/Table that you want to push data to.

    • The View/Table requires one of the following identifiers in order to fetch devices: 'ID', 'id', 'SERIAL', 'assetname'. Note that the values are case-sensitive.
    • In each Snowflake account, the name of the View/Table is user-defined, such as ACCOUNT_USAGE.DATABASES.
    • The primary use of this field is to test that a connection to the vendor can be established.
  • Key Passphrase - Enter the passphrase for an encrypted key.

  • Verify SSL (optional) - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

  • Request ID - The ID of the request.

  • Files - Click + for each CSV file with asset data that you want to push into the Snowflake data warehouse.

    • File Path - The path to the CSV file.
    • File Size - The size of the CSV file.
  • Gateway Name - Select the Gateway through which to connect to perform the action.

APIs

Axonius uses the Snowpipe REST API.


For more details about other Enforcement Actions available, see Action Library.


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