Automated Continuous HCL Domino Replication to Google BigQuery

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live HCL Domino data into your Google BigQuery instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure Google BigQuery as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate HCL Domino data to Google BigQuery. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select Google BigQuery as a destination.

3. Enter the necessary connection properties. To connect to Google BigQuery, use OAuth authentication:

   Authenticate with a User Account

   In this OAuth flow, you can connect without setting any connection properties for your user credentials.

   1. Click Connect, and CData Sync opens the Google BigQuery OAuth endpoint.
   2. Log in and grant permissions to CData Sync.
   3. CData Sync then completes the OAuth process.

   Authenticate with a Service Account

   Service accounts have silent authentication, without user authentication in the browser. You can also use a service account to delegate enterprise-wide access scopes to CData Sync.

   You need to create an OAuth application in this flow. See Creating a Custom OAuth App in the Getting Started section to create and authorize an app. You can then connect to Google BigQuery data that the service account has permission to access.

   After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:

   • OAuthClientId: Set this to the Client ID in your app settings.
   • OAuthClientSecret: Set this to the Client Secret in your app settings.
   • OAuthJWTCertType: Set this to "PEMKEY_FILE".
   • OAuthJWTCert: Set this to the path to the .pem file you generated.
   • OAuthJWTCertPassword: Set this to the password of the .pem file.
   • OAuthJWTCertSubject: Set this to "*" to pick the first certificate in the certificate store.
   • OAuthJWTSubject: Set this to the email address of the user for whom the application is requesting delegate access. Note that delegate access must be granted by an administrator.
   • DatasetId: Set this to the ID of the dataset you want to connect to.
   • ProjectId: Set this to the ID of the project you want to connect to.
   When you connect, CData Sync completes the OAuth flow for a service account.

4. Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save Changes.

Configure the HCL Domino Connection

You can configure a connection to HCL Domino from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your HCL Domino account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (HCL Domino).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   Prerequisites

   The connector requires the Proton component to be installed. Normally, Proton is distributed as part of the AppDev pack. See the HCL documentation for instructions on acquiring and installing Proton or the AppDev pack.

   Once the Proton service is installed and running, you will also need to create a user account and download its Internet certificate. This certificate can be used to set the connector certificate connection properties.

   Authenticating to Domino

   • Server: The name or IP address of the server running Domino with the Proton service.
   • Port: The port number that the Proton service is listening on.
   • Database: The name of the database file, including the .nsf extension.
   • SSLClientCertType: This must match the format of the certificate file. Typically this will be either PEMKEY_FILE for .pem certificates or PFXFILE for .pfx certificates.
   • SSLClientCert: The path to the certificate file.
   • SSLServerCert: This can be set to (*) if you trust the server. This is usually the case, but if you want to perform SSL validation, you may provide a certificate or thumbprint instead. See the documentation for SSLServerCert for details.

   Additional Server Configuration

   The connector supports querying Domino views if any are defined. Before views can be queried by the connector they must be registered with the design catalog.

   Please refer to the Catalog Administration section of the AppDev pack documentation for details on how to do this.

4. Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save Changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, click Add Tables in the Tables section, choose the table(s) you wish to replicate, and click Add Selected Tables.

Customize Your Replication

You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication.

Schedule Your Replication

In the Schedule section, you can schedule a job to run automatically, configuring the job to run after specified intervals ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your HCL Domino data to Google BigQuery.