Mapped Security

The Objective Connector supports mapped security. When you set the configuration parameter MappedSecurity to TRUE, the connector generates Access Control Lists (ACLs) and sets the SECURITYTYPE field in each document.

Supported security fields

The connector adds the following fields to each document. Each of these fields contains an Access Control List (ACL).

  • AUTONOMYMETADATA - evaluate this ACL to determine read permission.
  • AUTONOMYMETADATA_BROWSE - evaluate this ACL to determine browse permission (the ability to see that an item exists, but not read it).
  • AUTONOMYMETADATA_WRITE - evaluate this ACL to determine write permission.
Security Type
Type=AUTONOMY_SECURITY_V4_GENERIC_MAPPED
SecurityACLFormat=<E=B!>:U:<U=SLE+>:NU:<NU=SLE->:G:<G=SLE+>:NG:<NG=SLE->
SecurityACLCheck=NU=[U]?F:-,NG=[G]?F:-,E=1?P:-,U=[U]?P:-,G=[G]?P:F

Use these values when you configure your IDOL Content component to process ACLs that originated from Objective Connector.

SECURITYTYPE Field Value

OBJECTIVEREST

An IDOL index might contain documents that originated from different connectors. Objective Connector adds the SECURITYTYPE field to each document, so that you can configure your IDOL Content component to recognize documents that originated from this connector, and process each document using the appropriate security type.

Group server configuration Create a new security repository and configure OmniGroupServer to populate the repository with user and group information by calling the connector's SynchronizeGroups action (GroupServerJobType=Connector).