Configuring SearchBlox

Before using Azure Blob Data Source, install SearchBlox successfully and create a Custom Collection.

Getting Azure keys

Login to Azure and get the Storage account name and Access keys (key1) for Azure Blob storage based on the storage that you are to index in SearchBlox

Configuring Azure Blob Data Source

Download the SearchBlox Connector UI. Extract the downloaded zip to a folder.

Contact [email protected] to request the download link for SearchBlox Connectors UI. The following steps include the example paths for both Windows as well as Linux. In Windows, the connector would be installed in the C drive.

Unzip the archive under C:* or /opt*.
Create a data folder on your drive where the files would be temporarily stored.
Configure the following properties once you create a data source in the connector UI.

Accessing Connector UI


data-directory	Data Folder where the data needs to be stored. Make sure it has write permission.
api-key	SearchBlox API Key. API key would be available in Admin Dashboard Menu -> Admin ->Licence page
colname	The name of the custom collection in SearchBlox.
url	SearchBlox URL
azurebloburl	Blob URL for Azure
blobaccesskey	Access key for Azure blob storage
blobstorageaccount	Azure storage account name
exclude-formats	File formats to be excluded
max-folder-size	Maximum size of static folder after which it should be sweeped in MB.
search url & delete-api-url:	Make sure that the port number is right. If your SearchBlox runs in 8080 port the URLs should be right by default.