Managing domains
Overview
This article describes how to create and manage domains. Refer to Discovering Your Sensitive Data for an overview of domains and related concepts.
Domains
Domains identify a specific type of sensitive data, along with the masking algorithm to use for that data. From the Settings tab, click Domains to the left, and the list of domains will be displayed. From here, you can add, edit, or delete domains.
Delphix Continuous Compliance includes built-in domains and algorithms for many common types of sensitive data. Users can choose to select a different default masking algorithm for a domain, and/or create additional domains with their own default algorithms.
Additional created algorithms appear in the Algorithms drop-down menu. Because each domain has a single default masking algorithm, a distinct domain (along with recognition logic) must exist or be created for each distinct algorithm in order for the profiler to assign that algorithm in rule sets.
If the purpose for the environment where a profile job is run is set to Tokenization/Re-Identify, the tokenization algorithm associated with the domain will be assigned instead of the masking algorithm. Each domain referenced by any profile set used in tokenization environments should have a tokenization algorithm value defined.
The Settings > Domains tab is where to define domains, along with their default masking and tokenization algorithms.
The domains on the screen can be filtered or sorted by the various informational fields by clicking on the respective fields. More information on grid filtering and sorting can be found here.
Adding a new domain
At the top of the Domains tab, click Add Domain.
Enter the new Domain Name. The domain name specified will appear as a menu option on the Inventory screen elsewhere in the Delphix Masking Engine. Domain names must be unique.
Select a default Masking Algorithm for the new domain, and click Next.
Select a default Tokenization Algorithm for the new domain, if desired, and click Next.
Click Save.
To delete any domain, click the Actions button to the far right of the domain name and select the option Delete.
Note that updating the default masking or tokenization algorithm assigned to a domain only impacts algorithm assignments made by future profiling job executions, it does not have any immediate affect on algorithm assignments in existing rule sets.