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To enable the search appliance to use IWA/Kerberos authentication during secure serve, use the
Serving > Universal Login Auth Mechanisms > Kerberos page.
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To configure the search appliance to use the Authentication SPI, use the Serving > Universal Login
Auth Mechanisms > SAML page.
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To configure the search appliance to use conectors, use the Serving > Universal Login Auth
Mechanisms > Connectors page
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To enable the search appliance to authenticate credentials against an LDAP server, use the Serving
> Universal Login Auth Mechanisms > LDAP page in the Admin Console.
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To configure the search appliance to use the Authorization SPI, use the Serving > Access Control
page.
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To configure flexible authorization rules, use the Serving > Flexible Authorization page.
Learn More about Controlled-Access Content
For complete information about configuring a search appliance to crawl and serve controlled-access
content, refer to Managing Search for Controlled-Access Content.
Indexing Content in Non-Web Repositories
If your organization has content that is stored in non-web repositories, such as Enterprise Content
Management (ECM) systems, you can enable the Google Search Appliance to index and serve this
content by using the connector framework.
The Google Search Appliance provides the indexing capabilities for the following content management
systems:
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Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
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Microsoft SharePoint Services
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EMC Documentum
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Open Text Livelink Enterprise Server
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IBM FileNet Content Manager
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LDAP
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Lotus Notes
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Databases
Also, Google partners have developed connectors for other non-web repositories. For information
about these connectors, visit the Google Solutions Marketplace (
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The connector manager is the central part of the connector framework for the Google Search Appliance.
The Connector Manager itself manages creation, instantiation, scheduling and monitoring of
connectors that supply content and provide authentication and authorization services to the Google
Search Appliance. Connectors run on connector managers residing on servlet containers installed on
computers on your network. All Google-supported connectors are certified on Apache Tomcat.