Introduction

The Group Expansion connector can crawl and expand identities from the Identity Cache. The Identity Cache is part of Aspire crawl state database. The crawlTypically Elastic Search is used as a repository for crawl state database and the Identity Cache is stored in the index aspire-identitycache. The Identity Cache serves for connector as a storage for their identities like groups and users. For example we can find in the Identity Cache LDAP users and groups

Environment and Access Requirements

Repository Support

The File System supports crawling the following the repositories

Account Privileges

For the File System connector to be able to crawl the Aspire Worker nodes must be run with an account with read access to the directory to crawl.

Environment Requirements

The Aspire Worker nodes must be running in the same machine where the file system repository is located or at least have access in the case of a file share. 

Framework and Connector Features

Framework Features

Connector Features

The File System connector has the following features:

• Document filtering using include and exclude regex patterns.
• Static acls can be added the documents crawled

Content Crawled

The File System connector is able to crawl the following objects:

Limitations

The File System Connector has the following limitations:

• The connector does not retrieve the acls of the crawled documents.