FTP Connector App-bundle (Aspire 2)

The FTP Connector performs full and incremental scans over content stored on an FTP server and will extract metadata and content from each file scanned. You can configure the name and port of the FTP server, the user to connect as, the directory to crawl and whether the scan should be recursive or not. Each scanned file will be tagged with one of three possible actions--add, update, or delete--and can be routed to any Aspire pipeline as desired.

The connector, once started, can be stopped, paused or resumed sending a new Scanner Configuration Job. Typically the start job will contain all information required by the job to perform the scan. When pausing or stopping, the connector will wait until all the jobs it published have completed before updating the statistics and status of the connector.

NOTE that the FTP connector does not support document level security, and any jobs published will contain no access control lists (ACLs) for the scanned content.

Configuration

This section lists all configuration parameters available to install the FTP Connector Application Bundle and to execute crawls using the connector.

General Application Configuration

FTP Connector Specific Configuration

There are no configuration options specific to the FTP connector

Configuration Example

To install the application bundle, add the configuration, as follows, to the <autoStart> section of the Aspire settings.xml.

<application config="com.searchtechnologies.aspire:app-ftp-connector">
  <properties>
    <property name="generalConfiguration">true</property>
    <property name="snapshotDir">${dist.data.dir}/${app.name}/snapshots</property>
    <property name="workflowReloadPeriod">15s</property>
    <property name="batchSize">50</property>
    <property name="batchTimeout">60000</property>
    <property name="waitForSubJobs">600000</property>
    <property name="maxThreads">10</property>
    <property name="jobQueue">30</property>
    <property name="extractTimeout">180000</property>
    <property name="extractTextMaxSize">unlimited</property>
    <property name="disableTextExtract">false</property>
    <property name="workflowErrorTolerant">false</property>
    <property name="emitStartJob">true</property>
    <property name="emitEndJob">true</property>
    <property name="enableAuditing">true</property>
    <property name="debug">false</property>
    <property name="non-text-document">true</property>
    <property name="nonTextDocumentsExtensions">jpg,gif,mp3,mp4,mpg,avi,wav,bmp,swf</property>
    <property name="enableFetchUrl">true</property>
    <property name="fdService">false</property>
    <property name="fdServiceUrl"/>
  </properties>
</application>

Note: Any optional properties can be removed from the configuration to use the default value described on the table above.

Source Configuration

Scanner Control Configuration

The following table describes the list of attributes that the AspireObject of the incoming scanner job requires to correctly execute and control the flow of a scan process.

Header Example

  <doc action="start" actionProperties="full" actionType="manual" crawlId="0" dbId="0" jobNumber="0" normalizedCSName="FeedOne_Connector"
   scheduleId="0" scheduler="##AspireSystemScheduler##" sourceName="ContentSourceName">
    ...
    <displayName>testSource</displayName>
    ...
  </doc>

All configuration properties described in this section are relative to /doc/connectorSource of the AspireObject of the incoming Job.

Scanner Configuration Example

  <doc action="start" actionProperties="full" actionType="manual" normalizedCSName="FTP_Connector" sourceName="FTP_Connector">
    <connectorSource>
      <server>ftp.searchtechnologies.com</server>
      <port>21</port>
      <url>/test</url>
      <username>sd-ftp-user</username>
      <password>encrypted:562E81591F85B858E5A5D3876F9C9FDB</password>
      <passive>true</passive>
      <indexContainers>false</indexContainers>
      <scanRecursively>true</scanRecursively>
      <scanExcludedItems>false</scanExcludedItems>
      <fileNamePatterns/>
    </connectorSource>
    <displayName>FTP_Connector</displayName>
  </doc>

Example Output

<doc>
  <url>/test/11/00/0/1.txt</url>
  <id>/test/11/00/0/1.txt</id>
  <fetchUrl>/test/11/00/0/1.txt</fetchUrl>
  <displayUrl>/test/11/00/0/1.txt</displayUrl>
  <snapshotUrl>005 /test/11/00/0/1.txt</snapshotUrl>
  <doFetch>true</doFetch>
  <doPopulate>true</doPopulate>
  <docType>item</docType>
  <lastModified>Thu Jun 25 11:42:00 BST 2015</lastModified>
  <dataSize>4264</dataSize>
  <repItemType>aspire/file</repItemType>
  <sourceName>FTP Connector</sourceName>
  <sourceType>ftp</sourceType>
  <connectorSource type="ftp">
    <server>ftp.searchtechnologies.com</server>
    <port>21</port>
    <url>/test</url>
    <username>sd-ftp-user</username>
     <password>encrypted:562E81591F85B858E5A5D3876F9C9FDB</password>
    <passive>true</passive>
    <indexContainers>false</indexContainers>
    <scanRecursively>true</scanRecursively>
    <scanExcludedItems>false</scanExcludedItems>
    <fileNamePatterns/>
    <displayName>FTP Connector</displayName>
  </connectorSource>
  <action>add</action>
  <hierarchy>
    <item id="E392FAB00D12B2340E5BE938C982ABBA" level="5" name="1.txt" url="/test/11/00/0/1.txt">
      <ancestors>
        <ancestor id="0891335A4083FCD65DD995A58E23EF39" level="4" name="0" parent="true" type="aspire/folder" url="/test/11/00/0"/>
        <ancestor id="46FFA5AD9FAD0068CE164E1B5D7917E1" level="3" name="00" type="aspire/folder" url="/test/11/00"/>
        <ancestor id="1C53A23263BBF5898E320F633910B6F6" level="2" name="11" type="aspire/folder" url="/test/11"/>
        <ancestor id="4539330648B80F94EF3BF911F6D77AC9" level="1" name="FTP Connector" type="aspire/folder" url="/test"/>
      </ancestors>
    </item>
  </hierarchy>
  <contentType source="ExtractTextStage/Content-Type">text/plain; charset=windows-1252</contentType>
  <extension source="ExtractTextStage">
    <field name="Content-Encoding">windows-1252</field>
    <field name="X-Parsed-By">org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser</field>
    <field name="resourceName">/test/11/00/0/1.txt</field>
  </extension>
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