HCP System Management Help


HDDS search facility configuration information

You use the HDDS administrative interface to specify the information HDDS needs in order to index and search HCP namespaces. You use the HCP System Management Console to specify the information HCP needs in order to use the HDDS search facility with the HCP Search Console.

For information on using the HDDS administrative interface, see the applicable HDDS documentation.

Note: Depending on security requirements, the person specifying the HCP information in the HDDS administrative interface may be someone other than you. For example, your site may have an HDDS system administrator who is responsible for this, or you may choose to make the HDDS administrative interface available to HCP tenant-level administrators.

Namespace mappings

To make a namespace known to HDDS, you use the HDDS administrative interface to map the namespace to an HDDS server. To do this, you need to know:

The name of the domain associated with the data access network for the tenant that owns the namespace. To enable HDDS to communicate with HCP over this network, it must have IPv4 addresses assigned to it. For more information on networks, see About virtual networking with HCP.

The namespace name.

The name of the tenant that owns the namespace.

For an HCP namespace, either of these:

oThe name and password of a tenant-level HCP user account with the monitor or administrator role

oThe name and password of a recognized Active Directory user for which an applicable system-level HCP group account has the monitor or administrator role

For the default namespace, either of these:

oThe name and password of a system-level HCP user account with the monitor or administrator role

oThe name and password of a recognized AD user account for which an applicable system-level HCP group account has the monitor or administrator role

For an HCP namespace, either of these:

oThe name and password of a tenant-level HCP user account whose data access permissions for the namespace include read and search

oThe name and password of a recognized AD user account for which an applicable tenant-level HCP group account has the read and search data access permissions for the target namespaces

The protocol that HDDS needs to use to access the namespace (HTTP or HTTPS).

Note: If the password for either account changes, you need to update the namespace mapping in HDDS.

User account mappings

To use the Search Console:

To search HCP namespaces, a user needs either of these:

oA tenant-level HCP user account whose data access permissions for the target namespaces include read and search

oA recognized AD user account for which an applicable tenant-level HCP group account has the read and search data access permissions for the target namespaces

To search the default namespace or to use a system-level user account to access and search HCP namespaces, a user needs either of these:

oA system-level HCP user account with the search role

oA recognized AD user account for which an applicable system-level HCP group account has the search role

In all of these cases, the HCP or AD user account must be mapped to an HDDS user account.

You use the HDDS administrative interface to map HCP and AD user accounts to HDDS user accounts. To do this, you need to know the username and password of each HCP and AD account you want to map.

You can map one or more HCP and AD accounts to any given HDDS account. For the simplest configuration, map all the HCP and AD accounts to a single HDDS account. For the greatest security, map each HCP and AD account to a different HDDS account.

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If the password for an HCP or AD user account changes, you need to update the account mapping in HDDS.

When creating an account mapping, you need to specify the URL for the applicable tenant. For the default tenant, the tenant name in the URL must begin with an uppercase D.

HDDS server

To make the HDDS search facility available to HCP, you need to tell HCP about the applicable HDDS server. You do this in the HCP System Management Console.

Statistics account

HCP can report counts of indexed objects in the System and Tenant Management Consoles. To enable HCP to report HDDS search indexing statistics, you need to specify an HDDS user account name and password in the HDDS search facility configuration in HCP. The account that you identify must be in the Administrator group in HDDS.

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