Connector Quick Start

Start Connector

Unpack the distribution and run the start script located in the installation bin directory.

LINUX

./connector

WINDOWS

./connector.bat

Login to Connector

Once the Connector has started, navigate to the Admin UI and login with the default username and password, admin/admin:

http://your-host:16550

Configure Connector

Follow the description and instruction in the Basic Configuration Menu to configure the mandatory settings.

SMB File Share Configuration

Configure the SMB File Share Host with its credentials for the Share Connection.
SMB Host Settings
Configure the Share name, and the start folders.
Share Name Settings
Configure filters of the Share Content.
Filter Settings

Custom Security Manager Configuration

Configure URL of the CSM instance to connect to.
csm endpoint
Configuration options required for the connector to authenticate to the CSM.
csm credentials
Configuration namespace under which to ingest principals.
csm namespace

Microsoft SharePoint Configuration

Configure the file of the repository where the Submissions will be cached before being fetched by Microsoft SharePoint. Provide username and password to secure the repository.
submission repository config
Configure the Endpoint and Content Source of the already installed BCS solution, so that the connector can trigger a SharePoint crawl.
crawl trigger service url
Configure the credentials for the Crawl Trigger Service connection.
crawl trigger credentials

Upload License

  • Contact Raytion and obtain a license for your connector

  • Login to the Admin UI

  • Select License in the menu:

uploadlicense 1

  • Upload the license file by browsing for the file or simply dragging a dropping the license onto the license page

  • The Status of the license will be displayed as valid, and the expiration and item quota will also be displayed:

uploadlicense 2

Synchronizing Content Information

Once, the connector is configured and license uploaded, you can start synchronize content information using the traversal feature in the dashboard.

Content Traversal

In order to synchronize items from source system, the Connector provides different types of execution:

  • Ramp-Up: All items from source system are processed to the search engine. This includes also previously synchronized unchanged items. Note, that Ramp-Up will not delete deprecated items.

  • Incremental: All items are from source system are compared against the state in the connector from previous synchronization runs. Only changed items (this includes newly added, modified and moved items) will be processed to Microsoft Sharepoint. This type can be used to reduce the load on the search engine. Incremental Runs will also synchronize delete information by deleting all removed items from the search engine index.

content dashboard

Principal Synchronization

Principal Synchronization processes Principal Information from Source System into Search Engine. The connector applies early binding of Access Control List for our content items. Hence, the items processed by Content Synchronization is protected by Access Control reflecting the equivalent Security Policy defined in the Source System. Security Information required by Search Engine to resolve the early bound items during search will be provided by Principal Synchronization. In case of Principal Synchronization, there is only a single execution type:

  • Ramp-Up: All principal information from source system is processed to Microsoft Sharepoint. This includes also information about deleted principal (deleted groups or deleted group membership relation).

Schedule Traversal

Scheduled traversals can also be configured through the menu.

From this button a Schedule can be configured.
schedule button
From upper right corner you can choose the traversal type and then click on NEW SCHEDULED TRAVERSAL.
schedule type
Configure the frequency that the Traversal will be executed and click Save.
schedule frequency