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:16400

Configure Connector

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

OpenText Content Server Configuration

Set an identifier of the source system that is automatically added to the metadata of each document.
otcs instance name
Configure URLs for OpenText Content Server.
otcs urls
Configure technical user who will be used for crawling.
otcs techinal user

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.

Content Traversal

  • Ramp Up will process all items to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search.

  • Incremental will process only changed items since last traversal run.

  • Automated Change Processing can be enabled to automatically process certain live updates from OpenText Content Server to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search.

dashboard content with change processing

Principal Traversal

  • Ramp Up will process all security information to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search.

dashboard principal

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