Connectors UI

Connectors UI

• Contact support@searchblox for Connectors UI utility.
• Download Connectors UI and save it in local.
• Start connectorsgui as Administrator.

• Navigate to http://localhost:8082.
• By default, Connectors UI will be running in 8082 port.

Create an account

• Create an account to use Connectors UI.

Create an endpoint

• After creating an account, click on the "+" icon on the top right to create a new endpoint.

• Provide the following details to create an endpoint:

  1. Endpoint name should be unique for each account created.
  2. URL, the SearchBlox endpoint (http://localhost:8080/). "localhost" can be replaced with IP address where searchblox is installed.
  3. API key of the above SearchBlox instance

• Make sure the SearchBlox server is up and running before creating an endpoint. Otherwise, it will throw an error.

Create a new Data Source

• Click on Setup a new Data Source to index the documents using a connector.

• Select the type of Data Source with which you want to index the documents from the UI.

• Provide all mandatory fields and click on Create & Index.
• Make sure you have a corresponding Custom Collection in the SearchBlox server to index the documents.

• State will be RUNNING while the connector is indexing the documents.

• Once the state changes to DONE, navigate to SearchBlox server and confirm if the documents are indexed in that particular Custom Collection.