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:

Configure Connector

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

Adobe Experience Manager Configuration

Server Config

Use the User credentials created from the step Adobe Experience Manager Quick Start - Create User.

Server Config
Content Traversal Config
Start Nodes
Type Filters
Thumbnail Filter
Page Content Selector Config
Template Selector
Metadata Filter Config
Metadata Filter

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search Configuration

Configure the Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search instance to push documents against.
cognitive search config instance

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 Data

Once the connector is configured and the license uploaded, you can start synchronizing data using the traversal feature in the dashboard.

dashboard start traversal without cp

There are 3 options for Synchronizing:

  • Force Refeed Toggles if previously discovered traversal items that haven’t changed should be fed to the search engine.

  • Process Deletes Toggles if deletions should be fed to the search engine.

  • Run Next The traversal will be prioritized over other traversals without this flag in the queue.

Content Traversal

  • Full

dashboard content traversal without partial

Schedule Traversal

Scheduled traversals can also be configured through the menu.

From this button a Schedule can be configured.
schedule button
Click on NEW SCHEDULED TRAVERSAL.
scheduling
Configure the Traversal that will be executed and click Save.
schedule configuration