Connectors Configuration Reference

Description

The Couchbase V2 connector uses the Couchbase Java client to retrieve data stored in Couchbase.

The JDBC connector fetches documents from a relational database via SQL queries. Under the hood, this connector implements the Solr DataImportHandler (DIH) plugin.

Retrieve data from a MongoDB instance.

Description

The Box connector retrieves data from a Box.com cloud-based data repository. To fetch content from multiple Box users, you must create a Box app that uses OAuth 2.0 with JWT server authentication. For limited testing using a single user account, you can create a Box app that uses Standard OAuth 2.0 authentication.

The File Upload connector provides a convenient way to quickly ingest data from your local filesystem. It is available in the:

Retrieve documents using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

The Fusion Google Cloud Storage (GCS) V2 connector enables indexing datasets from GCS buckets into Fusion 5. The connector leverages the Google Cloud API for authentication and fetching content and metadata.

The Google Drive connector is used to index the documents in a Google Drive account.

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). It traverses the Hadoop file system as it would a regular Unix filesystem.

This connector traverses a network file system (NFS), where a shared drive is mounted to the same location on all hosts in the cluster that are running this connector.

OneDrive is a file hosting service that is part of the Microsoft Office Online services. The Fusion OneDrive connector crawls a OneDrive for Business instance and retrieves data from it for indexing within Fusion.

The Amazon AWS S3 V2 connector crawls items in a single bucket. You must specify the bucket name and AWS region in which that bucket is located.

You may crawl specific items in a bucket. If no items are specified, the entire bucket will be crawled.

The Windows Share connector can access content in a Windows Share or Server Message Block (SMB 2 and 3 protocols)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) filesystem. Available in Fusion 5.x.x releases.

The Windows Share connector can access content in a Windows Share or Server Message Block (SMB 2 and 3 protocols)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) filesystem.

Description

The Active Directory Connector for ACLs V2 plugin:

The Alfresco Connector is a crawler for the Alfresco server, which adheres to the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard.

The Azure connector is used to crawl an Azure instance. Its connector type is "lucid.azure" and its plugin type is "azure".

Retrieve data from the Atlassian Confluence Wiki CMS. You can configure this datasource to crawl pages, spaces, blog posts, comments, and attachments.

The Drupal connector requires Drupal’s Services 7.x3.11 Module REST API. Refer to this page to install the necessary packages: www.drupal.org/node/783236

The GitHub connector retrieves data from GitHub repositories using the GitHub REST API.

The JIRA connector retrieves data from a instance of Atlassian’s JIRA issue tracking system.

Salesforce REST API to extract data from a Salesforce repository via a Salesforce Connected App.

The ServiceNow Datasource retrieves data from the ServiceNow repository. For more information, see the:

ServiceNow records are stored in named tables.

The SharePoint connector retrieves content and metadata from an on-premises SharePoint repository, and is available in Fusion releases 5.1 through 5.5.

The SharePoint connector retrieves content and metadata from an on-premises SharePoint repository.

This connector provides full crawl and incremental crawl support for Sitecore versions 8.x and 9.x. It indexes document content and all metadata.

A Solr connector pulls documents from an external standalone Solr instance or SolrCloud cluster using Solr’s javabin response type and streaming response parser.

The Zendesk connector uses the Zendesk REST API to retrieve tickets and their associated comments and attachments from a Zendesk repository.

Description

Retrieve content from a Jive instance.

The Twitter Search connector uses Twitter’s search API to query Twitter for tweets that match specific parameters. It allows querying for any keyword, location or other query terms.

The Twitter Stream connector uses Twitter’s streaming API to continually index Twitter. The datasource can be configured to limit tweets or it can be run indefinitely, until Twitter cuts off your access or you stop the datasource. This connector only retrieves tweets created after the datasource has been started.

Description

The Web connector V1 retrieves data from a Web site using HTTP and starting from a specified URL.