SSAS Tabular scanner supports ingestion of semantic models in TMSL format from two different sources:

Ingest from Power BI Workspace XMLA endpoint

The scanner will connect to your Power BI workspace’s XMLA endpoint and ingest metadata for all available semantic models in the workspace. Refer to the article for more details on how to configure your Power BI tenant and workspace to allow ingestion via XMLA endpoints.

This scenario supports ingestion from cloud (shared connection) or DIR (private connection). For more information, see Connection Types.

Ingest from SQL Server Analysis Services (Tabular)

To ingest from SQL Server Analysis Services, Dawiso Integration Runtime (DIR) is the recommended option. Use DIR to:

  1. Connect to your local SSAS instance in Tabular mode.
  2. Script all available databases to TMSL JSON format.
  3. Send extracted metadata to your Dawiso tenant via HTTPS.