Google Search Appliance Connectors Deploying the Connector for SharePoint User Profiles - Manual (Page 7)

4. Run the Connector for SharePoint User Profiles
Step 1 Configure the search appliance
For the search appliance to work with the Connector for SharePoint User Profiles, the
search appliance needs to be able to crawl information about users in the SharePoint User
Profile Service Application and accept feeds from the connector. Once indexed by the
search appliance, SharePoint User Profile information has to reside in a collection that
contains only profile information.
To set up these capabilities, perform the following tasks by using the search appliance
Admin Console:
1. Add the URL provided by the connector to the search appliance’s follow patterns.
2. Add the IP address of the computer that hosts the connector to the list of Trusted
IP. addresses so that the search appliance will accept feeds from this address.
3. Create and configure a collection for user profile information.
4. Set up security .
Add the URL
To add the URLs provided by the connector to the search appliance’s crawl configuration
follow patterns:
1. In the search appliance Admin Console, click Content Sources > Web Crawl > Start
and Block URLs.
2. Under Follow Patterns, add the URL that contains the hostname of the machine
that hosts the connector and the port where the connector runs.
For example, you might enter http://connector.example.com:5678/doc/
where connector.example.com is the hostname of the machine that hosts the
connector.
By default the connector runs on port 5678.
3. Click Save.
Add the IP address
To add the IP address of the computer that hosts the connector to the list of trusted IP
addresses:
1. In the search appliance Admin Console, click Content Sources > Feeds.