The File System Connector can be configured using the Aspire Admin UI. It requires the following entities to be created:

• Connection
• Connector
• Seed

Bellow are the examples of how to create the Connection and the Seed. For the Connector please check this page.

Create Connection

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the connections tab 
2. All existing connection will be list. Click on the new button 
3. Enter the new connection description. 
4. Select Filesystem from the Type list.
5. General
   1. Base Path: Path of the base directory to crawl. All the seeds will be prefixed with this value to form the full path. All the seeds will be prefixed with this value to form the full path
   2. Ignore Symbolic Links: If enabled symbolic links will not be processed and links in the root items will cause an error.
   3. Index directories: Enable to index the directories.
   4. Scan recursively: Enable to scan discovered directories recursively.
6. Scope
   1. Scan excluded items: Enable to force the scan of excluded directories, so child items within the scope can be found.
   2. Include patterns: Patterns to match against document URL, if any of them match, the document will be included in the crawl.
   3. Exclude patterns: Patterns to match against document URL, if any of them match, the document will be excluded from the crawl.
7. Security
   1. Static ACLs: These ACLs will be added to all of the documents.
      1. Name: Name of the ACL.
      2. Domain: Domain to which the ACL belongs to.
      3. Entity: Whether or not this ACL is for a group or a user.
      4. Access: Whether or not this ACL will have access to crawled files.
8. Policies
   1. Throttle Policy: Select the throttle policy that applies to this connection object.
   2. Routing Policies: Select the routing policies that this connection will use.

Create Seed

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the connections tab 
2. All existing connection will be list. Click on the new button 
3. Enter the