Enabling the Extractor Component

The first step to enabling the Data Exporter is to enable the extractor component. To enable the extractor:

Open an SSH terminal session to your Turbonomic instance.
Log in with the System Administrator that you set up when you installed Turbonomic:

Username: turbo
Password: [your_private_password]
Edit the cr.yaml file to enable the extractor component.
In the same SSH session, open the cr.yaml file for editing. For example:
vi /opt/turbonomic/kubernetes/operator/deploy/crds/charts_v1alpha1_xl_cr.yaml
Edit the entry for the extractor component.
NOTE: If you have enabled Embedded Reporting, then the extractor component will already be enabled (set to true).

You should uderstand that it is possible to enable the Data Exporter without enabling Embedded Reports, just as it is possible to enable Embedded Reports without enabling the Data Exporter.
Search for the extractor entry in the cr.yaml file. It should appear as:
```
 extractor:
   enabled: false
```
Change the entry to true.
Edit the entry for the extractor properties.
Search for the extractor entry in the cr.yaml file. It should appear as:
```
 properties:
   extractor:
     enableDataExtraction: false
```
Change the entry to true.
Save and apply your changes to the platform.
After you save your changes, use kubectl to apply the changes:
```
kubectl apply -f \
/opt/turbonomic/kubernetes/operator/deploy/crds/charts_v1alpha1_xl_cr.yaml  
```
Verify that the extractor component is running.
Give the platform enough time to restart the components. Then execute the command:
kubectl get pods -n turbonomic

You should see output similar to the following:
```
NAME                                         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS 
...
extractor-5f41dd61c4-4d6lq                   1/1     Running   0   
...
```
Look for an entry for the extractor component. If the entry is present, ready, and running, then the extractor component is installed and running.

Enabling the Extractor Component

DOCUMENTATION HOME