Data Discovery & Risk Insights 25.1.0 Help Center

# Google Drive connection

If you will be creating datasets that process Google Workspace's Drive data, you must complete additional tasks to enable processing by OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights.

NOTE: OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights supports processing of data from Google Workspace's Drive; data from personal Google Drives is not supported.

OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights uses a service account to access the user drives within your Google Workspace. Use of the service account provides the opportunity to access the drives without requiring individual end-user (employee) consent, and the access does not expire.

In OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights, a dataset to process Google Drive data is associated with a single user account Google Drive.

## Requirements

Prior to beginning the connection tasks, you must have the following in place.

- A Google Workspace for the domain that includes the desired users' drives.

- A Google project within the Workspace, with the User Type set to Internal.

  Set the User Type for the project in the Google Cloud Platform, APIs & Services > OAth consent screen.

Review your Google Cloud document quotas to ensure ideal performance. For more information about document quotas, see the Google Cloud documentation at https://cloud.google.com/docs/quota.

## Configure Google Drive connection

Complete the following tasks to enable OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights to connect to and process items from Google Drive.

To create and configure the service account for the Google project

1. Log on to Google Cloud Platform as a G Suite administrator.

2. Create a new service account for the desired project.

   When creating the account,

   - do not select any roles for the Grant this service account access to project (optional) step.

   - do not grant any user access for the Grant users access to this service account (optional) step.

3. Create a service account key.

   When creating the service account key,

   - select JSON as the Key Type.

   - download the JSON key file. You will need this file to create the Google Drive source in OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights. When you create the Google Drive source, you will select this JSON file when prompted for the "Certificate Upload (JSON)."

     IMPORTANT: Your new public/private keypair is generated and downloaded to your machine; it serves as the only copy of this key. You are responsible for storing it securely. If you lose this keypair, you will need to generate a new one.

4. In the Service Account Details, select Enable Google Workspace Domain-wide Delegation

   Make note of your Client ID.

5. From the APIs & Services dashboard, click ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES.

   Search for and enable Google Drive API if not already enabled.

To set the API scopes

1. Log on to your domain's G Suite Admin console as a super administrator.

2. Navigate to Security > API Controls > Domain Wide Delegation > Manage Domain Wide Delegation and click Add New for the API Client.

3. Type the Client ID previously generated and set the following API scopes.

   - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

   - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user

   Click Authorize.

## Configure cloud connection web proxy settings (Optional)

The Google Drive processor service controlled by the processing agent requires connectivity to the OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights cloud components, often located away from the local network where the agent host servers are located. Although direct connectivity is ideal, use of a web proxy may be required in some environments for the agent systems to reach the OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights cloud.

To configure the web proxy for the Google Drive processor

1. On the machine hosting the OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights processing agent, log on to the agent administration UI.

   From the Start menu, click OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights Agent > Agent Admin. The Advanced process settings page opens.

2. In the Category list, click Google Drive Processor.

3. Complete the following options.

   Option | Description
   --- | ---
   Proxy address URL | Type the URL of the web proxy.
   Proxy bypass list | Type a comma separated list of addresses that do not use the proxy server..

4. Click Save. You can close the agent administration UI.

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