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Automated Governance for FME Flow: Smarter Admin at Scale
Want more control over your FME Flow environment, without the burden of manual admin work? In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage FME as your best administrative ally by automating routine FME Flow management tasks, enforcing best practices, and improving visibility into performance and security. You’ll learn how to move from reactive administration to a proactive governance model – one where monitoring, access control, and notifications are built into repeatable, automated workflows that scale with your environment. We’ll cover: -System Monitoring: Read logs and query system status via the REST API to maintain availability -User Lifecycle Management: Automate user permissions and role assignments to ensure consistent access control. -Compliance & Notifications: Set up automated alerts and reminders to meet policies and deadlines -Operational Efficiency: Use automation to replace repetitive admin tasks with workflows If your team is growing or your compliance needs are becoming more complex, it’s time to move from reactive administration to proactive governance: powered by FME Flow.
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Automated Governance for FME Flow: Smarter Admin at Scale
- 2. Dylan Paterson Technical Support Specialist, FMEFlow Nia Colebrooke Technical Support Specialist Richard Mosley Technical Support Team Lead Insert Headshot Here. Meet the Presenters Mark Warren Pre-Sales Support Specialist
- 3. Welcome to Livestorm. Afew ways to engage with us during the webinar: Audio issues? Click this for 4 simple troubleshooting steps.
- 4. How to downloadslides 1. Hover over the slide deck in the webinar room 2. Click this button
- 5. Agenda 1 Introduction 2 UserManagement 3 System Events 4 Visualizing Relationships in FME Flow 5 Job Quality Assurance 6 Custom MCP Integrations 7 Conclusion 8 Resources & Next Steps 9 Q&A Agenda
- 6. Poll: How would youdescribe your current FME Flow administration?
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- 8. Govern your FMEFlow environment with confidence, and without the manual burden.
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- 10. Chat Storm: Where doesit hurt most? What’s your biggest FME Flow admin challenge today?
- 11. There is abetter way with FME! FME Flow is not just for data workflows, it’s your automation engine for smarter system governance.
- 12. The only All-Data,Any-AI Platform. FME Form FME Flow Data Movement and transformations (“ETL”) workflows are built here. Brings life to FME Form workflows FME Flow Hosted Safe Software managed FME Flow fme.safe.com/platform FME Enterprise Integration Platform Safe & FME FME Realize Experience data in real world context, in real time.
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- 15. ● Centralized identitymanagement ● MFA Use Authentication Services
- 16. ● Principle ofLeast Privilege ● Reduce admin exposure Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- 17. ● Monitor forsuspicious activity ● Review roles, users, policies, etc. ● Collaborate with your security team Regular Reviews
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- 19. ● Resources /Logs / Core / Current / fmeserver.log ● Resources / Logs / Core / Current / fmedirectoryserver.log ● Resources / Logs / service / Current / fmesaml.log ● Resources / Logs / service / Current / sso.log ● Resources / Logs / tomcat / HOST / Current / localhost_access_log.txt Logs
- 20. ● User Created/Removed ●User Metadata Updated ● Successful/Failed Login System Events
- 21. V4 REST API /roles/accounts /ldap /saml /entraid
- 22. Slide Title Flow userroles always reflect app roles from the IdP Goal Block Key JIT SAML Role Updates Result No automatic updates, only one role mapped initially Automation updates roles on login Eliminates manual role updates
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- 24. ● GET /fmeapiv4/roles ●GET /fmeapiv4/accounts ● GET /fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id) ● DELETE /fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id)/roles/@Value(role_id) ● POST fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id)/roles REST API Calls
- 25. Slide Title Transition FME Flowusers from LDAP to SAML Goal Block Key Migrate LDAPusers to SAML Result No built-in way to migrate Automation transfers roles and objects, removes old LDAP account Automated migration and user cleanup
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- 27. ● GET /fmeapiv4/accounts ●GET & DELETE /fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id) ● POST fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id)/roles ● GET & PUT /fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id)/items ● GET & PUT /fmeapiv4/accounts/@Value(user_id)/categories ● GET /fmeapiv4/automations ● PUT /fmeapiv4/automations/@Value(automation_id)/enabled REST API Calls
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- 29. Frequent changes canmake it challenging to manage your FME Flow environment.
- 30. ● “Who changedwhat and when?” ● “How can I be notified when something broke or requires attention?” ● Manual audit trails and management are time-consuming and inconsistent. ● Risks ○ Increased admin overhead ○ Scalability ○ Staff dependence ○ Item duplication or loss ○ Extended outages Challenges with monitoring FME Flow
- 31. ● The toolsare there! ● System Events ○ Monitoring changes, errors & warnings ● Automations ○ Trigger a workflow based on an event ● FME Flow REST API V4 ○ Query or modify users, items, permissions, etc. What if FME Flow could manage itself?
- 32. Slide Title Reduce manual sharingfor new items on Flow. Goal Block Key Auto-Update Permissions on New Items Result By default, newly-created items aren’t shared. Monitor system events with Automations and the REST API. Automatically update permissions for new items.
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- 34. ● Automatically embedorganizational rules and best practices directly into FME Flow. ● Explore other System Events! Don’t see a system event you want to monitor? Submit an Idea! Automated Governance
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- 36. Monitor the impactof changes and automate response
- 37. Slide Title Assuring you knowthe what changes might affect Goal Block Key Linking and visualizing dependencies Result Connections,Workspace , Automations have many to many relationships REST API endpoints to programmatically "crawl" relationships. Better insights into Managing FME Flow
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- 39. ● GET /fmeapiv4/dependencies ●GET /fmeapiv4/workspaces ● GET /fmeapiv4/repositories ● GET /fmeapiv4/automations Key API Endpoints
- 40. ● Dynamic Parameters ●OpenAPI Caller Key Features
- 41. ● Use SystemEvents to capture a change to a workspace or connection and send a notification to the user. ● Organize objects into projects automatically ● Find orphaned objects Next Steps
- 42. ● Admins: Betterchange management and auditing. ● Users: Confidence that their downstream processes won't "silently" fail. From Reactive to Proactive
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- 44. Go beyond successand failure. Measure output quality and quantity .
- 45. Slide Title Create yourown metrics and automate QA Goal Block Key Creating thresholds and validating jobs Result Measure what matters: Features In/Out, Delays Pull and store data for statistical comparisons Automate your QA to ensure consistent results
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- 47. ● GET /fmeapiv4/jobs/<n>/log/parsed ●GET /fmeapiv4/jobs/<n> Rest API Calls
- 48. ● Go beyondfailures and successes ● Create your own QA ● Reader / Writer Counts ● Total and Feature Type counts ● Time Elapsed Key Benefits ● Flag Low Memory Conditions ● Customize thresholds for different workspaces ● Capture Transformer warnings that can indicate poor data. ● Use loggers to gain more workflow statistics Customizations
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- 50. ● Lack ofcentralized tools ● Limited visibility ● Existing tools can take time to configure ● Error prone: syntax must be perfect Administration Challenges
- 51. ● “MCP isan open protocol that standardizes how AI applications discover, integrate with, and interact with external tools and data sources” What is Model Context Protocol?
- 54. Slide Title Use natural languageto monitor and administrate FME Flow. Goal Block Key Natural language → admin control for FME Flow Result Manual processes can be tedious. And workflows may not be well organized. Create MCP tools using FME’s API’s. Fast and efficient administration of FME
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- 56. ● One stopshop ● REST V4 API and custom tooling ○ Data Virtualization ● Can use natural language ○ In any language! ● Highly Customizable Key Benefits
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- 58. Summary ● Governance scalesthrough automation, not effort ● FME Flow provides the APIs and tools you need ● Proactive administration reduces risk and workload
- 59. 30+ 30K+ 128 140+ 25K+ years of solvingdata challenges FME Community members countries with FME customers organizations worldwide global partners with FME services 200K+ users worldwide 200K+ users worldwide
- 60. All Data. AnyAI. All Data Velocities Batch (ETL, Reverse ETL, ...) Event ( BPA, RPA, ...) Stream All Data Locations Any Cloud On-premises Hybrid Edge Containers Embedded Mixed All Data Types Unstructured Structured Spatial APIs Web Apps … Any AI Technology OpenAI Amazon Bedrock Google Gemini Ollama Deepseek Composite
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- 62. Resources to Get Started ●Getting Started with the FME Flow REST API ● Getting Started with Data Virtualization
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- 65. We’d love tohelp you get started. Get in touch with us at info@safe.com Experience the FME Accelerator Contact Us A world where data is not just a commodity but a catalyst for real change. fme.safe.com/accelerator Next Steps
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