Tip: Connector ids are how Federation Services identifies the
individual connector when receiving calls from other sources, such as Federation
Service. This value must be usable as part of url. Use the description field if you need
more than a few letters/numbers to describe the connection. The description shows up
with its connector ID across the product.
- Connector ID: A unique identifier for this connection i.e. simflofy_demo (alphanumeric, dashes and underscore characters only)
- Description: The text that will be displayed on drop-downs etc. to identify this connection.
- Type: The type of Search Connection (Solr, Mongo, Elastic etc.)
- Keep Connection Alive: Federation Services will cache the connection for a given amount of time before discarding it.
- Keep Alive in Milliseconds: How long to keep the connection alive before discarding it (300000 is 5 minutes)
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Security Mode: This is how to authenticate with the back-end
search.
- Authentication Connection: The most common method is to use the appropriate authentication connection
- User Pass-through Credentials: Users the authenticates with whatever authentication they used for Federation Services. Only supported in rare cases.
- None: Only usable with the Filesystem Content Service Connector