The Data Masker Tools Tab

The Tools tab provides a series of buttons which offer tools and utilities that provide additional functionality to the Data Masker software. Most of the buttons launch forms which contain their own detailed help files so the discussion below will provide only a quick summary.

What the buttons in the Tools tab do

Rule Status Report

Launches a form which provides the ability to save a report of the configuration of the current masking rules. The rule status report produced could be used as printed documentation detailing the structure of the rules.

Rule Run Report

Launches a form which provides the ability to save a report listing the statistics of the current masking run. A rule run report could be used to provide a permanent record of the execution of the rules.

Resequence RuleID's

Launches a form which provides the ability to re-number the masking rules in the set and specify the interval between successive rules. The actual rule number is irrelevant to the Data Masker software so re-sequencing is usually only done for cosmetic purposes.

Import Rules From Masking Set

Launches a form which can read rules from previously saved masking sets and import them into the existing masking set. This makes it easy to re-use rules created in other masking sets.

Column Finder

A handy utility to browse the schema table structure and find columns based on user specified search critera (including wild cards and full regex). This tool is useful when analyzing a schema in order to find tables and columns which might require masking.

View Log File Now

Each time the Data Masker software starts it creates a new log file in which it records its actions. This button will open the current log file in a text editor.