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Google Search Appliance: Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance

Crawling and Indexing

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To configure the search appliance to require X.509 Certificate Authentication for search requests
from users, use the Search > Secure Search > Universal Login Auth Mechanisms > Client
Certificate page.

To enable the search appliance to use IWA/Kerberos authentication during secure serve, use the
Search > Secure Search > Universal Login Auth Mechanisms > Kerberos page.

To configure the search appliance to use the Authentication SPI, use the Search > Secure Search >
Universal Login Auth Mechanisms > SAML page.

To configure the search appliance to use connectors, use the Search > Secure Search > Universal
Login Auth Mechanisms > Connectors page

To enable the search appliance to authenticate credentials against an LDAP server, use the Search
> Secure Search > Universal Login Auth Mechanisms > LDAP page in the Admin Console.

To configure the search appliance to use the Authorization SPI, use the Search > Secure Search >
Access Control page.

To configure flexible authorization rules, use the Search > Secure Search > Flexible Authorization
page.

To enable a “trusted application,” such as a portal page, to send credentials that it has validated to
the search appliance, use the Search > Secure Search > Trusted Applications 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 and sources:

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server

Microsoft SharePoint Services

EMC Documentum

Open Text Livelink Enterprise Server

IBM FileNet Content Manager

LDAP

Lotus Notes

Databases

File systems

Active Directory groups