Content Server Connector Prerequisites

User Accounts and Application Permissions

Required Permission	Description
Active Directory A directory service for Windows domain networks. A hierarchical structure that stores information about objects on the network. Used to manage permissions and control access to critical network resources. account	A valid Active Directory account with READ access to the Content Server (LiveLink) file shares.
Database account	Oracle: Separate Oracle database login and password with READ access to all of the content. SQL: Separate database login and password with READ access to all of the content.
Content Server account	Valid Content Server account with full READ permissions.
Domain Accounts
Service Account	Windows Authentication: If you installed your Web service on a machine that is in a different domain, you must set up trust between the domains.
Impersonate	Basic Authentication: If you deployed Content Server to a remote domain, BA Insight recommends that you manually configure your authentication in IIS. For more information, go to Configure Basic Authentication (IIS 7).

Connector Features and Requirements

Features	Supported	Additional Information
Supported version	Supported Content Server versions: 9.7+ 10+ RM v4.2+ OpenText Content Server v16.x and later	Content Server connector supports Content Server v16.x to the latest version.
Searchable content types	Yes	All content types.
Content Update	Full and Incremental	All BA Insight Connectors support both Full and Incremental crawls, unless noted. Due to a change in the cache storage mechanism, you must perform a full update crawl after upgrading to the LiveLink connector v2.1.0.0 and later.
Permission Types	Yes	All BA Insight Connectors support fetch ACLs from the source system Your Source System is the repository where your data is stored (data to be indexed). This repository is managed by applications such as: - SharePoint O365 - SharePoint 2013/16/19 - Documentum - File Share - OpenText - Lotus Notes - etc. Your Source System repository can also be a database such as SQL or Oracle.. To make items *public* or *restricted* to a single user/set of users, you can do so within the Connector Framework.
Required Software	PowerShell v2 .NET Framework v4.7.2 BA Insight Connector Framework or Connectivity Hub	PowerShell v2 is installed from Windows Server Manager. Navigate to Server Manager> Manage> Add Roles and Features. Connector Framework or Connectivity Hub must be installed before installing the Content Server connector.
Required Extensions	EXE (or DLL)	When you generate the URL that end users will click on in their search results, this URL has an extension that is usually blocked by SharePoint. For example: http://host/livelink.livelink.exe or http://host//ecm/llisapi.dll For SharePoint Search: Add EXE (or DLL) to the allowed extensions. The default extension that is used during crawl enumeration is lvl. For this reason, you must add the lvl extension to the SharePoint allowed extensions list.
Optional Software	Microsoft Visual J# Version 2.0 Redistributable Package	To use LAPI as the file retrieval model, install the Microsoft Visual J# Version 2.0 Redistributable Package on the same machine where the Content Server connector is installed.