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Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

This section contains topics that describe how to configure OCF sources. You can learn how to configure access settings, metadata extraction, profiling, sampling, cross-source lineage, and Compose settings for OCF data sources.

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In this section:

• Configure Access to Data
• Configure Metadata Extraction for OCF Data Sources
• Configure Sampling and Profiling for OCF Data Sources
• Configure Compose for OCF Data Sources
• Configure Cross-Source Lineage
• Schema Path Pattern
• OCF Connector Catalog User Experience
• Reprocess Lineage for Views (Beta)