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Use CData Sync for automated, continuous, customizable Blackbaud FE NXT replication to Apache Cassandra.
Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Blackbaud FE NXT data into your Apache Cassandra instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.
Configure Cassandra as a Replication Destination
Using CData Sync, you can replicate Blackbaud FE NXT data to Apache Cassandra. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select Apache Cassandra as a destination.
Enter the necessary connection properties. CData Sync supports Basic authentication with login credentials and the additional authentication features of DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Cassandra. The following sections detail connection properties your authentication method may require.
You need to set AuthScheme to the value corresponding to the authenticator configured for your system. You specify the authenticator in the authenticator property in the cassandra.yaml file. This file is typically found in /etc/dse/cassandra or through the DSE Unified Authenticator on DSE Cassandra.
Basic Authentication
Basic authentication is supported through Cassandra's built-in default PasswordAuthenticator.
- Set the AuthScheme property to 'BASIC' and set the User and Password properties.
- In the cassandra.yaml file, set the authenticator property to 'PasswordAuthenticator.'
Kerberos Authentication
Kerberos authentication is supported through DataStax Enterprise Unified Authentication.
- Set the AuthScheme property to 'KERBEROS' and set the User and Password properties.
- Set the KerberosKDC, KerberosRealm, and KerberosSPN properties.
- In the cassandra.yaml file, set the authenticator property to "com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator."
- Modify the authentication_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the default_schema and other_schemas properties as 'kerberos.'
- Modify the kerberos_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the keytab, service_principle, http_principle and qop properties.
LDAP Authentication
LDAP authentication is supported through DataStax Enterprise Unified Authentication.
- Set the AuthScheme property to 'LDAP' and set the User and Password properties.
- In the cassandra.yaml file, set the authenticator property to "com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator."
- Modify the authentication_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the default_schema and other_schemas properties as 'ldap.'
- Modify the ldap_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the server_host, server_port, search_dn, search_password, user_search_base, and user_search_filter properties.
Using PKI
You can specify a client certificate to authenticate CData Sync with SSLClientCert, SSLClientCertType, SSLClientCertSubject, and SSLClientCertPassword.
- Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- Click Save Changes.
Configure the Blackbaud FE NXT Connection
You can configure a connection to Blackbaud FE NXT from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Blackbaud FE NXT account, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select a source (Blackbaud FE NXT).
- Configure the connection properties.
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties.
See the Getting Started guide in the CData driver documentation for more information.
- Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- 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 Blackbaud FE NXT data to Apache Cassandra.