FDM masking guide in Linux Environment

Products

• CA Test Data Manager (Data Finder / Grid Tools)

Issue/Introduction

I have installed FDM in Linux environment but not able to perform masking, please guide us with the steps to run masking in Linux environment.

Environment

FDM 4.7.x
Fast data Masker
TDM
Test Data Manager
Operating System:  Linux/Unix

Resolution

Please follow below steps to execute masking job on Linux server

1)  Create connection file, masking csv files manually or through GUI on windows machine.
2)  Copy these two files to linux server.
3)  Run below command to start the masking process. In below command, /opt/CA/FastDataMasker is default installation directory on Linux, /tmp/connect_local_profile.txt is connection file and /tmp/Masking.csv is masking csv file.

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.util.logging.config.file="/opt/CA/FastDataMasker/logging.properties" -Xms100M -Xmx1000M -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -cp ".;/opt/CA/FastDataMasker/Fastdatamasker.jar;/opt/CA/FastDataMasker/lib/*;/opt/CA/FastDataMasker/custom/*;" -jar "/opt/CA/FastDataMasker/Fastdatamasker.jar" "/tmp/connect_LOCAL_GTREP.txt" "/tmp/Masking.csv"