output paths

Output Path Requirements for QSGC Agent

Using the Qlik Sense Governance Collector requires the configuration of output paths to properly store the xml and qvd files generated during collection.

The identified paths are used by the agent and the qvd generation and governance dashboard applications. It's very important that these paths exist and they are properly referenced in the agent configuration.

When the installer is used, the output paths are created if they do not previously exist as long as they are not unc paths. If unc paths are supplied during installation, path references will be added to the configuration of the agent, but not created in the filesystem.

Below is the folder structure required for storing output created during collection.

metadataPath
|-- userAccess
|   |-- bookmark
|   |-- dimension
|   |-- embeddedsnapshot
|   |-- masterobject
|   |-- measure
|   |-- sheet
|   |-- story

qvdOutputPath
|-- various qvd files

In some cases, it is desired to nest the qvd output folder in the metadata folder. That is totally fine to do. During the install, specify the full path for the qvd output directory. As a result, the structure of the metadata folder may look like this:

metadataPath
|-- userAccess
|   |-- bookmark
|   |-- dimension
|   |-- embeddedsnapshot
|   |-- masterobject
|   |-- measure
|   |-- sheet
|   |-- story
|-- qvdOutputPath

If it is necessary to change the agent configuration to point the metadata path and qvd path to another location, review the agent configuration section of the wiki.