DDS search facility configuration information
You use the DDS administrative interface to specify the information DDS 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 DDS search facility with the HCP Search Console.
For information about using the DDS administrative interface, see the applicable DDS documentation.
Namespace mappings
To make a namespace known to DDS, you use the DDS administrative interface to map the namespace to an DDS 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 DDS to communicate with HCP over this network, it must have IPv4 addresses assigned to it.
- The namespace name.
- The name of the tenant that owns the namespace.
- For an HCP namespace, either of these:
- The name and password of a tenant-level HCP user account with the monitor or administrator role
- The 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:
- The name and password of a system-level HCP user account with the monitor or administrator role
- The 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:
- The name and password of a tenant-level HCP user account whose data access permissions for the namespace include read and search
- The 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 DDS needs to use to access the namespace (HTTP or HTTPS).
If the password for either account changes, you need to update the namespace mapping in DDS.
User account mappings
To use the Search Console:
- To search HCP namespaces, a user needs either of these:
- A tenant-level HCP user account whose data access permissions for the target namespaces include read and search
- 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
- 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:
- A system-level HCP user account with the search role
- A 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 DDS user account.
You use the DDS administrative interface to map HCP and AD user accounts to DDS 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 DDS account. For the simplest configuration, map all the HCP and AD accounts to a single DDS account. For the greatest security, map each HCP and AD account to a different DDS account.
If the password for an HCP or AD user account changes, you need to update the account mapping in DDS.
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 DDS search facility available to HCP, you need to tell HCP about the applicable DDS server. You do this in the HCP System Management Console.
Statistics account
HCP can report counts of indexed objects in the HCP System Management Console and Tenant Management Console. To enable HCP to report DDS search indexing statistics, you need to specify an DDS user account name and password in the DDS search facility configuration in HCP. The account that you identify must be in the Administrator group in DDS.