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Posted to user@manifoldcf.apache.org by Smitha S <Sm...@infosys.com> on 2015/06/09 03:18:05 UTC
MCF API Services
Hi Karl,
I am using MCF REST API services for creating connectors and jobs. I am stuck in two places. Could you please help me here.
1. Repository Connector Creation: How do we specify password for creating a repository connector with window share. Is MCF expecting the password to be encrypted in any special format. When I try to pass the password as a normal string, the connector is created with a connection status as "Couldn't connect to server: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.". How do I pass password here.
2. Job Status history: I have created and scheduled a job using MCF Rest API. The requirement is to get the job running history with info of job start time, job end time, number of documents processed etc. Using jobstatus/jobid, I can get the last job run details. But how do I fetch the previous run details.
Could you please provide some insights for the above two points. I really appreciate your help in resolving all MCF queries.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Smitha
RE: MCF API Services
Posted by Smitha S <Sm...@infosys.com>.
Thanks.
But I am passing the JSON for creating repository connector in below format. Where do I mention the encryption parameters?.
{"repositoryconnection":
{"description":"","
name":"344_RepConnector",
"configuration":{"_PARAMETER_":
[{"_value_":"<<IP>>","_attribute_name":"Server"},
{"_value_":"<<domain>>","_attribute_name":"Domain/Realm"},
{"_value_":"<<username>>","_attribute_name":"User Name"},
{"_value_":"<<password>>","_attribute_name":"Password"},
{"_value_":"true","_attribute_name":"Use SIDs"}]},
"class_name":"org.apache.manifoldcf.crawler.connectors.sharedrive.SharedDriveConnector","isnew":"true"}}
Regards,
Smitha
From: Will Martin [mailto:wmartin@synthostech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 6:54 AM
To: user@manifoldcf.apache.org; user-help@manifoldcf.apache.org
Cc: Karl Wright
Subject: RE: MCF API Services
Using a domain user:
Domain suffix should be filled in and username should just be the name. You enter the password as clearText, use the DIGEST and UsePrincipalName
Local user: is the same except you don't provide the domain suffix.
Does either of these help? Have you validated login on the remote machine? If you have access.
From: Smitha S [mailto:Smitha_S09@infosys.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 9:18 PM
To: user@manifoldcf.apache.org<ma...@manifoldcf.apache.org>; user-help@manifoldcf.apache.org<ma...@manifoldcf.apache.org>
Cc: Karl Wright
Subject: MCF API Services
Hi Karl,
I am using MCF REST API services for creating connectors and jobs. I am stuck in two places. Could you please help me here.
1. Repository Connector Creation: How do we specify password for creating a repository connector with window share. Is MCF expecting the password to be encrypted in any special format. When I try to pass the password as a normal string, the connector is created with a connection status as "Couldn't connect to server: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.". How do I pass password here.
2. Job Status history: I have created and scheduled a job using MCF Rest API. The requirement is to get the job running history with info of job start time, job end time, number of documents processed etc. Using jobstatus/jobid, I can get the last job run details. But how do I fetch the previous run details.
Could you please provide some insights for the above two points. I really appreciate your help in resolving all MCF queries.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Smitha
RE: MCF API Services
Posted by Will Martin <wm...@synthostech.com>.
Using a domain user:
Domain suffix should be filled in and username should just be the name. You enter the password as clearText, use the DIGEST and UsePrincipalName
Local user: is the same except you don't provide the domain suffix.
Does either of these help? Have you validated login on the remote machine? If you have access.
From: Smitha S [mailto:Smitha_S09@infosys.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 9:18 PM
To: user@manifoldcf.apache.org; user-help@manifoldcf.apache.org
Cc: Karl Wright
Subject: MCF API Services
Hi Karl,
I am using MCF REST API services for creating connectors and jobs. I am stuck in two places. Could you please help me here.
1. Repository Connector Creation: How do we specify password for creating a repository connector with window share. Is MCF expecting the password to be encrypted in any special format. When I try to pass the password as a normal string, the connector is created with a connection status as "Couldn't connect to server: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.". How do I pass password here.
2. Job Status history: I have created and scheduled a job using MCF Rest API. The requirement is to get the job running history with info of job start time, job end time, number of documents processed etc. Using jobstatus/jobid, I can get the last job run details. But how do I fetch the previous run details.
Could you please provide some insights for the above two points. I really appreciate your help in resolving all MCF queries.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Smitha
Re: MCF API Services
Posted by Karl Wright <da...@gmail.com>.
History:
repositoryconnectionhistory/
*<encoded_connection_name>*
*Karl*
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Karl Wright <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Smitha,
>
> (1) The passwords need to be obfuscated. Probably the safest thing to do
> is to obfuscate them by hand using the script provided. But you can also
> obfuscate them programmatically.
>
> (2) The job status will contain only the current job information. To get
> history, you need to fetch the job's history information and filter it
> accordingly.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Smitha S <Sm...@infosys.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using MCF REST API services for creating connectors and jobs. I am
>> stuck in two places. Could you please help me here.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Repository Connector Creation: How do we specify password for
>> creating a repository connector with window share. Is MCF expecting the
>> password to be encrypted in any special format. When I try to pass the
>> password as a normal string, the connector is created with a connection
>> status as “Couldn't connect to server: Logon failure: unknown user name or
>> bad password.”. How do I pass password here.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. Job Status history: I have created and scheduled a job using
>> MCF Rest API. The requirement is to get the job running history with info
>> of job start time, job end time, number of documents processed etc. Using
>> jobstatus/jobid, I can get the last job run details. But how do I fetch the
>> previous run details.
>>
>>
>>
>> Could you please provide some insights for the above two points. I really
>> appreciate your help in resolving all MCF queries.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Smitha
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Re: MCF API Services
Posted by Karl Wright <da...@gmail.com>.
org.apache.manifoldcf.core.system.ManifoldCF.obfuscate(String) will
obfuscate a password.
Karl
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Smitha S <Sm...@infosys.com> wrote:
> Thanks Karl.
>
>
>
> As per our requirement, the connectors needs to be created on the go. So I
> think I should programmatically obfuscate the password. Do I need to use
> the obfuscation-utility or is there any MCF jar I can use to do this
> programmatically.
>
>
>
> For getting the history, is there any REST API available? I can see
> “History query parameters” mentioned in link
> http://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/trunk/en_US/programmatic-operation.html
>
> But not sure how to form the URL.
>
>
>
> Appreciate your help very much.
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Smitha
>
>
>
> *From:* Karl Wright [mailto:daddywri@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:29 PM
> *To:* Smitha S
> *Subject:* Re: MCF API Services
>
>
>
> Hi Smitha,
>
> (1) The passwords need to be obfuscated. Probably the safest thing to do
> is to obfuscate them by hand using the script provided. But you can also
> obfuscate them programmatically.
>
> (2) The job status will contain only the current job information. To get
> history, you need to fetch the job's history information and filter it
> accordingly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Smitha S <Sm...@infosys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Karl,
>
>
>
> I am using MCF REST API services for creating connectors and jobs. I am
> stuck in two places. Could you please help me here.
>
>
>
> 1. Repository Connector Creation: How do we specify password for
> creating a repository connector with window share. Is MCF expecting the
> password to be encrypted in any special format. When I try to pass the
> password as a normal string, the connector is created with a connection
> status as “Couldn't connect to server: Logon failure: unknown user name or
> bad password.”. How do I pass password here.
>
>
>
> 2. Job Status history: I have created and scheduled a job using MCF
> Rest API. The requirement is to get the job running history with info of
> job start time, job end time, number of documents processed etc. Using
> jobstatus/jobid, I can get the last job run details. But how do I fetch the
> previous run details.
>
>
>
> Could you please provide some insights for the above two points. I really
> appreciate your help in resolving all MCF queries.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Smitha
>
>
>
>
>