LS Central SaaS and LS Insight in
This setup wizard will go through the steps needed to set up the replication from LS Central SaaS to LS Insight pre-staging tables and create an instance of LS Insight in Azure. SQL server, SQL database, and Azure Data Factory pipelines are used to move data from the LS Insight pre-staging tables to the staging tables and from the staging tables to the data warehouse tables.
The replication with web services is needed here because the LS Central SaaS database cannot be directly queried like the on-premises LS Central SQL databases.
Therefore, you need to have access to an on-premises server that can run the scheduling of the replication jobs and host the Data Director that runs the jobs from LS Central SaaS to the LS Insight database in Azure.
First, you have a few preparation steps to do and the setup of the on-premises LS Central replication environment. Then, you move on to the setup of LS Insight in Azure, and the last steps show how the Power BI report templates are connected to LS Insight.
Setup parameters
The creation of the Azure resources is done by the deployment script and when the script is run you will be asked to fill in the following parameters:
- Azure subscription ID (collected in step 1 of the wizard)
- Azure log in credentials (user name and password)
- LS Central company name/s
- Azure resource group name
- Name for LS Insight SQL server in Azure
- User name for SQL server admin user in Azure
- Password for SQL server admin user in Azure
- Name for LS Insight database in Azure
- Name for LS Insight Azure data factory
It is therefore a good idea to collect and decide on all the parameters before you start going through the wizard.