Introduction

The Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Aspire connector will crawl content from an Adobe Experience Manager server.

Environment and Access Requirements

Due to API limitations, the AEM connector requires the JSON API to be enabled in the server for the connector to work.
In order to access AEM, a user account with sufficient read privileges to access the content to crawl must be supplied.
Before installing the AEM connector, make sure that the AEM server is up and running.

Name	Supported
Content Crawling	Yes
Identity Crawling	No
Snapshot-based Incrementals	Yes
Non-snapshot-based Incrementals	No
Document Hierarchy	Yes

Some of the features of the AEM connector include:.

Fetches access control lists (ACLs) for document level security. For the current implementation only Closed Users Groups are supported as ACLs.
Search engine independent.
Can filter content based on properties using expected values or patterns.
Filter pages base on the scheduled on and off time.
Runs from any machine with access to the given to the AEM server.
Supports optional content fetching.

The AEM connector retrieves several types of documents from: