The Azure Data Lake Connector can be configured using the Aspire Admin UI. It requires the following entities to be created:

  • Credential
  • Connection
  • Connector
  • Seed

Create Credential 


  1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the credentials page
  2. All existing credentials will be listed. Click on the new button
  3. Enter the new credential description.
  4. Select Azure Data Lake from the Type list.
    1. Account Name: Storage Account name
    2. Application ID: Client ID for your application
    3. Application Secret: Key supplied by Azure
    4. Tenant ID: Tenant ID for your Application

Create Connection 


  1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the connections page
  2. All existing connections will be listed. Click on the new button
  3. Enter the new connection description. 
  4. Select Azure Data Lake from the Type list.
    1.  Select if all file systems are to be scanned
    2. File System Name: Specify the name of the file system
    3. Index Containers: Select if folders are to be indexed
    4. Scan Recursively: Select if a sub-folder is to be scanned
    5. Scan Excluded Items: If selected, the scanner will scan sub items of container items that have been excluded by a pattern (because it matches an exclude pattern or because it doesn't match an include pattern)
    6. Include patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to include
    7. Exclude patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to exclude


Create Connector Instance


For the creation of the Connector object using the Admin UI, check this page.


Create Seed 


  1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the seeds page
  2. All existing seeds will be listed. Click on the new button
  3. Enter the new seed description.
  4. Select Azure Data Lake from the Type list.
    1. Specific Path: Specific path to crawl. If “Scan all Filesystems” in the Connection was checked, this path will be ignored.




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