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    Fusion 5.10

    Windows Share SMB 2/3 V2 Connector Configuration Reference

    Table of Contents

    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.

    Remote connectors

    V2 connectors support running remotely in Fusion versions 5.7.1 and later. Refer to Configure Remote V2 Connectors.

    Configuration

    When entering configuration values in the UI, use unescaped characters, such as \t for the tab character. When entering configuration values in the API, use escaped characters, such as \\t for the tab character.

    Connector for Windows (SMB) shares

    description - string

    Optional description

    <= 125 characters

    pipeline - stringrequired

    Name of the IndexPipeline used for processing output.

    >= 1 characters

    Match pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$

    diagnosticLogging - boolean

    Enable diagnostic logging; disabled by default

    Default: false

    parserId - string

    The Parser to use in the associated IndexPipeline.

    Match pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$

    coreProperties - Core Properties

    Common behavior and performance settings.

    fetchSettings - Fetch Settings

    System level settings for controlling fetch behavior and performance.

    pluginInstances - number

    Maximum number of plugin instances for distributed fetching. Only specified number of plugin instanceswill do fetching. This is useful for distributing load between different instances.

    <= 500

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 0

    Multiple of: 1

    fetchResponseScheduledTimeout - number

    The maximum amount of time for a response to be scheduled. The task will be canceled if this setting is exceeded.

    >= 1000

    <= 500000

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 300000

    Multiple of: 1

    indexingInactivityTimeout - number

    The maximum amount of time to wait for indexing results (in seconds). If exceeded, the job will fail with an indexing inactivity timeout.

    >= 60

    <= 691200

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 86400

    Multiple of: 1

    pluginInactivityTimeout - number

    The maximum amount of time to wait for plugin activity (in seconds). If exceeded, the job will fail with a plugin inactivity timeout.

    >= 60

    <= 691200

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 600

    Multiple of: 1

    indexMetadata - boolean

    When enabled the metadata of skipped items will be indexed to the content collection

    Default: false

    indexContentFields - boolean

    When enabled, content fields will be indexed to the crawl-db collection

    Default: false

    numFetchThreads - number

    Maximum number of fetch threads; defaults to 20.This setting controls the number of threads that call the Connectors fetch method.Higher values can, but not always, help with overall fetch performance.

    >= 1

    <= 500

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 20

    Multiple of: 1

    indexingThreads - number

    Maximum number of indexing threads; defaults to 4.This setting controls the number of threads in the indexing service used for processing content documents emitted by this datasource.Higher values can sometimes help with overall fetch performance.

    >= 1

    <= 10

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 4

    Multiple of: 1

    id - stringrequired

    A unique identifier for this Configuration.

    >= 1 characters

    Match pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$

    properties - Windows Share properties

    Plugin specific properties.

    authentication - Authentication Properties

    domain - string

    Windows File Share Domain

    username - string

    Windows File Share Username

    password - string

    Windows File Share Password

    server - Server Properties

    serverName - string

    The Windows share server name. (FQDN or IP)

    shares - array[object]

    List of Windows 'Shares' to be crawled

    object attributes:{shareName required : {
     display name: Share Name
     type: string
    }
    paths : {
     display name: Folder/File path inside a share
     type: array
    }
    }

    connection - Connection Properties

    connectTimeout - number

    Timeout sets Read, Write, and Transact timeouts (default is 120 seconds)

    >= -2147483648

    <= 2147483647

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 120

    Multiple of: 1

    socketTimeout - number

    Socket Timeout (default is 0 seconds, blocks forever)

    >= -2147483648

    <= 2147483647

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 180

    Multiple of: 1

    enableDfs - boolean

    Whether or not to enable distributed windows file shares.

    Default: true

    multiProtocolNegotiate - boolean

    Enable multi protocol negotiate

    Default: true

    security - Security Trimming Properties

    enabled - boolean

    Enable query-time security-trimming

    Default: true

    collectionId - string

    Id of the collection to be used for storing ACL records. If not specified, ACL collection name will be generated automatically using pattern '<datasource_id>_access_control_hierarchy'.

    limitDocument - Limit documents Properties

    Documents filtering options

    includedFileExtensions - array[string]

    Set of file extensions to be fetched. If specified, all non-matching files will be skipped.

    Default:

    excludedFileExtensions - array[string]

    A set of all file extensions to be skipped from the fetch.

    Default:

    inclusiveRegexes - array[string]

    Regular expressions for path patterns to include. This will limit this datasource to only paths that match the regular expression.

    Default:

    exclusiveRegexes - array[string]

    Regular expressions for path patterns to exclude. This will limit this datasource to only paths that do not match the regular expression.

    Default:

    maxSizeBytes - number

    Used for excluding files size larger than the configured value.

    >= -2147483648

    <= 2147483647

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: -1

    Multiple of: 1

    minSizeBytes - number

    Used for excluding files size smaller than the configured value.

    >= -2147483648

    <= 2147483647

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: false

    Default: 1

    Multiple of: 1

    indexFolderMetadata - boolean

    Enable indexing of folder metadata.

    Default: false