Controlling the Connector

The ENOVIA ER connector can crawl both Business Objects and relationships, offering a full Search experience, with thumbnails and preview. It also handles multiple-query processing.

This page discusses:

Control Document Scans

In the Exalead CloudView Administration Console, the Home > Connectors section provides status information and the following actions for managed connectors.

Note: You can also find these actions under Index > Connectors > YOUR CONNECTOR > Operation.

Action Description
Scan Performs the scan for this connector, full or incremental, depending on connector configuration and previous scan operations.

Scan requests are processed one after the other. When a scan request is launched while another is already being processed, it is added to a queue persisted to disk, and started once the current scan is finished.

Abort scan Stops the scan for a specific connector.
Note: It does not delete the documents already processed.
Clear documents Deletes all connector documents from the system and resets the connector state.
More actions Most connectors include more actions than Scan, Abort scan and Clear documents. For example, you can have actions such as Force rescan.

Adding an Event Monitor for Incremental Indexing

Optionally, you can manage incremental indexing through an Event monitor. If you do not, the connector uses the default incremental scan based on dates.

The Event Monitor detects added/modified/deleted elements, and sends their IDs for Exalead CloudView updates.

This feature is compatible with ENOVIA versions from R2020x.

To add an Event Monitor:

  1. Configure the ENOVIA ER connector connectivity mode. For more information, see Configuring the Connectivity.
  2. From the Configuration tab, expand Connection parameters.
  3. In Event monitor name, enter the name of the Event Monitor you want to create.
  4. Select the Has write access option.
  5. Click Apply.

    The Event Monitor is created in the ENOVIA database.

Note: In Operation > More actions > Manage event monitor, you can also select Delete to delete the Event Monitor from the database, or Clear to purge its events from the database.